Freedom is here.

Happiness is here.

Joy is here.

It’s already here, all of it, before we do or try ANYTHING.

It always has been, and it always will be.

Here, just here.

The only reason we can’t seem to find it, at least not sustainably, is because our minds don’t let us successfully and consciously connect the pieces of the puzzle.

We KNOW that things that seem to bring us pleasure and joy and peace of mind sometimes don’t have those results, so it’s pretty obvious that the things themselves don’t cause our experience.

We KNOW that we are naturally capable of feeling joy, contentment, satisfaction, excitement, and many more amazing feelings, so it’s an inherent talent.

We KNOW that the things we wish for, work for, and long for, will eventually lose their power to make us happy once we have attained them.

We KNOW.

We see it happen every day.

It’s all so bloody obvious.

It’s all there.

And that’s probably why it’s so hard to realize:

It’s almost TOO obvious.

It’s really easy to see these things separately outlined and to understand them intellectually, but it seems very hard to let them melt together and feel the result.

To actually get what it refers to.

The mind won’t let us.

It dramatizes and worrifies and problemizes.

It’s always in the way, obscuring the source, causing all the lack and confusion.

So we simply don’t get quality time with what’s hidden in plain sight.

And that sucks.

The main riddle, the essential conundrum, is to combine the obvious elements so they somehow click and we finally realize what that means.

To put together the different parts and experience the amazing, liberating sum.

It’s not a secret, it’s just that we hardly ever slow down enough to get it.

But if you’re looking for true freedom, you’ll never ever, EVER find it in the world around you, in things, circumstances, not even people or positive thoughts.

You have to realize, to deeply become aware, that you are already capable of feeling whatever you want to feel, and see that it’s merely obscured by the busy mind.

The only reason we can feel happy is because we can, not because stuff out there will do it for us.

We already can.

It’s innate.

It’s a human talent.

And what’s already there doesn’t need to be found or taught or bought or conquered.

It’s already there.

It always has been.

That’s why we don’t see it.

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