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Originally Posted by wolfgang  sometimes what we think makes us happy is some form of addiction. |
I've experienced addiction once or twice in my life, and to be quite honest it never made me feel "happy" or "self actualized". It may have relieved a certain amount of anxiety that builds up when you refuse to "give in", but I don't think I would personally categorize that feeling as "happy".
Addiction rewards the impoverishment of thoughts, which results in diminished awareness, which in turn leads to less freewill (as you cannot make a conscious choice that you are unaware exists in the first place). What I consider to be happiness is more like self actualization, or fulfilling your potential to be all that you can be. Self actualization rewards the enrichment of thoughts and expands one's being, rather than constricts it.
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Originally Posted by wolfgang hold onto trying to find happiness?
all good to the god consciousness - including being lost and not following god's consciousness. that is equally divine as well. |
Is is actually. There simply is no way you can act against the creator. Our existence precludes that possibility. There are choices to be made, to be sure, but all contingencies of choice have already been planned for. Now, we can offer thoughts that RESTRICT or impoverish OUR awareness of the "big picture" and this in turn leads to suffering (the perception of negativity or resistance), but the god consciousness (or totality of all mind) does not experience what we call "pain" as negative in nature -- just another experience to be had.
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Originally Posted by wolfgang but if it's all good, then why the need to be more closely aligned? if ultimately our will is the same as god's, then why do we have ideas about being more in alignment? |
From one perspective, the source desires to know or experience all things. Growth is one of those experiences that cannot occur with complete conscious omniscience intact. So we create an experience where we seem to start with a smaller identity and grow into a larger one. We are provided with a carrot to chase after -- to facilitate the growth experience. That carrot is our emotional state. Things that make you feel happy are EXPANDING your state of being, and things that feel bad are CONSTRICTING your state of being. So we are here, growing into the awareness that we are god -- that we are source energy. This is the alignment people seek. We aren't trying to
attain oneness, because we already have it. We are just trying to become conscious of the connection.
If a "higher" or more aligned consciousness were to inhabit a human body and its arm were chopped off, it would feel a variety of sensations associated with the human body being drastically changed, but it wouldn't experience the signal we call "pain" as negative. Just another interesting experience. Eventually we will all reach a point where things need not be avoided because negativity won't be able touch you regardless of any outer circumstance. Obviously, most of us are not there yet. But learning is fun regardless.
All that exists is knowledge.