Or<\/p>\n
\u2018You don\u2019t have to find yourself, because it is who you are.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n Or<\/p>\n \u2018Trying to find happiness is the only thing that gets in the way of being happy.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n I\u2019m sure you know those quotes.<\/p>\n And, like me, you\u2019ve probably tasted them on your lips many times, read them out loud, tried to understand them or act on them, and found that they didn\u2019t do anything for you.<\/p>\n \u2018You already have everything you need\u2019 just doesn\u2019t sound true when you go bankrupt or your spouse decides to get out of your life.<\/p>\n \u2018You don\u2019t have to find yourself, because it is who you are\u2019 is nothing more than an insult, when you have been feeling like shit for many years.<\/p>\n And \u2018Trying to find happiness is the only thing that gets in the way of being happy\u2019 might start you on a journey to NOT find happiness, but how do you do that?<\/p>\n All these statements are deeply true, really, but as long as you\u2019re married to the intellect, as long as your thinking leads the way in everything you do, they sound like oversimplified advertising headlines aimed at deeply na\u00efve people.<\/p>\n These quotes are not to be understood by the mind, because, in a way, they are a threat to the mind, to the perfectly cultivated idea of who you are.<\/p>\n They have to be seen, to be realized, to be experienced.<\/em><\/p>\n And until they land within you as part of a deeper knowing, as a simple recognition (\u2018Oh, fuck, okay, duh\u2019), they\u2019ll just come across as shallow and unrealistic spiritual drivel.<\/p>\n I\u2019m aware of the fact that this post states the obvious (\u2018you only see it when you see it\u2019) and in that way just might add more frustration to your already frustrated state of mind, but let me tell you this:<\/p>\n I\u2019ve been reading this kind of statements for years and years and years without ever being touched by them.<\/p>\n I obsessively tried to \u2018get\u2019 spirituality, oneness, wholeness, and the recognition of our true nature, and never succeeded.<\/p>\n Until I did, at least enough.<\/p>\n Until it was SO blatantly obvious, that I couldn\u2019t believe I didn\u2019t see it before.<\/p>\n This wasn\u2019t a personal accomplishment or reward for all my suffering, although it\u2019s really easy for me to pour it into a story and it feels good to look at it that way.<\/p>\n But of course it just happened.<\/p>\n One day, these realizations just knocked on my door and I let them in.<\/p>\n It just happened, and it will keep happening to many searching and non-searching beings.<\/p>\n And when it does (and maybe it already has, by the way), you\u2019ll be scratching your head and laugh sheepishly, liberated, unburdened, maybe even slightly embarrassed, and you\u2019ll realize<\/p>\n \u2018I DO have everything I need!\u2019<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n (Photo by @thomaskinto, for Unsplash)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u2018You already have everything you need.\u2019 Or \u2018You don\u2019t have to find yourself, because it is who you are.\u2019 Or \u2018Trying to find happiness is the only thing that gets in the way of being happy.\u2019 I\u2019m sure you know those quotes. And, like me, you\u2019ve probably tasted them on your lips many times, read […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[97,117,100,116,113,103],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30975,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30972\/revisions\/30975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}