Lack and Joy

We artificially create a lack and then a desire to relieve that lack, which, when that lack is undone, we feel better. It's like sticking a pin into you. It hurts and you take it out and say, "Gee that feels good." That is exactly what enjoying things and people is.  We hurt ourselves by creating a lack and then remove the lack, the pain, and say, "Gee that feels good. That makes me happy."


Every time you feel happiness, you feel only your real Self, more or less. The happier, the more you feel your real Self.  And you wrongly attribute it to things and people outside of yourself.


The mechanism is this: When you create the lack, you start up thoughts of I need this person, I need this thing to make me happy.  That causes a bit of pain, a need a lack, which, when you are relieved of that thought of lack, you return to your Self and this is what we call happiness. 


This is something very great to be achieved: to see that happiness is inherent.  That which you have been calling happiness is doing away with happiness and then restoring it and wrongly attributing it to external things and people.


If you want more joy...just be joy, which you naturally are.  That's the natural state. It't not necessary to need things. When you see that you are the All, there's nothing lacking. So take your joy directly, be your Self.  That's being infinite Joy.