CHAPTER 49

Joy

Still searching? Will this be it – the final piece in the puzzle, the answer or secret that will put an end to the search? Most of our life is spent searching. And when we’re not searching we’re chasing or avoiding; constantly doing stuff to find what most of us are looking for – sustainable happiness.

But we fail to understand that all this doing – searching, chasing and avoiding – is actually taking us further away from where we want to be. So we keep on striving for the impossible goal of sustainable happiness. In the process, we take our eye off what really matters, we get distracted and life slips on by. But we don’t see the trap. Why? I suppose because it has never been explained to us. Sure, we’ve all heard that material ...

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