Sunday, September 4, 2016

Wanting what you have

You must have heard this saying:
“Happiness is not having what you want. It is wanting what you have.”
To me it's always sounded like self-help. Like, great, maybe one day I'll be wise like that. But maybe I can sit up and take notice when it comes from a mystic I respect?

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj:
“You never want what’s true. You want what you don’t have and don’t want what you already have, and so you suffer. It’s so perplexing! Why not simply reverse it? Why not want what you have, and not want what you don’t have? It’s so simple! You can be happy; it’s here for the taking. You want little things when you could have the entire universe and eternity.”

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