“An Al-Anon member once remarked that the main source of our unhappiness is that we ourselves don’t know what we want. We think we’re dissatisfied with what we have, with the way we live, and the way other people act toward us.” (ODAT, 4 November)
Yes, it’s not about those things.
Today, everyone has a thousand comforts and securities that no one had a century ago.
Whatever one thinks will make one happy, well, someone else has it, and it hasn’t done the trick.
The real reason for my unhappiness is the ego’s insistence that there is something wrong and the solution lies in fixing the thing out there, over there, in the future, in the past.
Nothing I give it satisfies it.
The unhappiness is coming from the wanting itself.
Cease wanting and start appreciating, and then I discover I have a thousand times more than is necessary for happiness.