
I had deep feelings of despair from a very young age. I looked everywhere and in everything to find some sense of solace, but my despair only deepened. Only after I began to look within did I find an indescribable sense of peace.
I realized that nobody and nothing could have ever given me what I was searching for because it was within me all along. I had just been looking in the wrong place.
In an instant, I released everyone and everything from the expectations I had chained them to. Not only could they not give me what I longed for, but they also didn’t need to, and all the many “failures” I experienced led me to where I finally found all that I had been seeking.
There IS a light within you. It is shining brightly right now; it always has been and always will be, but you must look to where it is to find it.
We’re all so hungry, but we’re fishing in a field, insisting that there are fish to be found there. There are all the fish one could possibly want, but we have to go to the water.
Finding this can take practice. Get quiet often and tell yourself that for the next minute, or five minutes, you’re going to set down all your plans, goals, and scheming to get anything, and just listen. Tell yourself that you can pick them all up again when you’re done if you want to.
Don’t worry if you don’t seem to feel or experience anything.
Beautiful art with compassionate thoughts! 💝
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