Desire, Dreams and Happinness - can we ever arrive?

Desire, Dreams and Happinness - can we ever arrive?
An IAI debate

While seemingly open to a wider range of ideas, the IAI approach still operates from presumptions that then frame the question.
The presumption of lack, be it inadequacy, separation or incompletion, becomes the basis of a false sense of self that is no more true for being mutually reinforced. Happiness actually comes first and extends and expresses itself as desire that then unfolds as an experience or reflection of completion. One is always arising anew from wholeness. The identification within a belief in self lack is being chosen and enacted and experienced as part of a greater desire whose meaning is an unfolding human being - which is infinitely more than our self concepts. One can say that exploring what is NOT true of you and does NOT fulfil your innate desire for love and life and happiness is part of the journey you have chosen whereby to more clearly recognize and re-member who you truly are. There is no sense of lack in your true presence - unless of course you choose to be less than the wholeness of what is You right here and now. But then you are experiencing your wholeness in a fragmented and dissociative way and not recognizing your Self at all!
Love is the true joy and freedom of being yourself. In any situation or relationship where you feel and allow the permission to be all that you are in that moment - you will feel loved and loving. Fantasy relationships substitute for actually extending that acceptance and freedom to another - which is the only way to have it yourself. The substitution of fantasy associations for living presence is self-deprivation. Struggling to defend a fantasy that reflects only your own sense of lack is chasing an idol of power or completion from the conviction you do not already have it and so give your power away to external props that do not know or care for who you truly are.
In a sense EVERYTHING is Imagination - but some thoughts, definitions and beliefs are more in accord and alignment with the core signature vibration that you absolutely recognize as YOU, so to align with and follow your joy is to connect with your joy to the best of your ability in every moment when you are presented with a choice. This is simple embodying and expressing a genuinely felt or true sense of worth. Why would you NOT align with your joy? What are you believing about yourself that invalidates you? Is it true? Does it serve you? Do you want it? Act from your current knowing while staying in the willingness to know more. or you can just talk and think about everything and act as if nothing you say actually means you have allow the transforming of who you thought you were

Seek and ye shall find

'Seek and do not find' is the carrot on the stick that must forever remain out of reach if the status quo is to remain protected. For those of us for whom the status quo is running past its 'sell by date' - and whose need for change is our thirst for truth, we 'seek to be found'. Because we do not now look outside for things - to add to ourself, or to another place or time - to become more.

The desire to be restored at the root to sanity must seek and find its true rootedness. Shallow roots cannot be made deeper - no matter how much time is given to trying and our own thoughts have roots only in our own thoughts because of what they have been used for.
New growth is now growth in which there is a replacement of the false by the true. But until the desire is constant, it will seem to be choked back by the weeds of the old habit. The old habit is like an addiction to hide and possess - yet can have no power over the truth of what you want.
Using inspiration to discern and open the prayer of the heart is a listening within - even while all the noise of ego-habit does its thing.
The grace of truth shifts to a spacious calm when the negative loop falls away - and light shines obvious from its Source.

Often I write as part of my own 'journey' of listening - for to be found in the Root. Free of the miasma of thought and emotion that counterfeits Life.
I do not have a sense of a life to 'go back to' - and the coagulation of think-based life is a kind of living suicide that is not in my heart to desire. Delay is meaningless in eternity - but tragic in time. Well actually - that's not the whole truth - for the mind that thinks it thinks to delay life so to have its own way - is comic - from the vantage point of the Son of God remembering to laugh at the impossible as it dissolves in one's own awareness.
Buddha said - "Wake up! - your house is on fire!" he shouldn't need to tell you now to leave it. How long and hard do we attempt to live more comfortably in suffering - when perfect love - the Correction of mistaken thought - is Your Holy Spirit's Gift to you - at the exact place the problem is.
Yes - I know - it often feels dreadful to approach the Light - for our guilt surfaces and our fear increases. But this is only so in the temptation to use these to look through.
So grow relationship with Companionship - visible, and invisible. For the power to dispel and correct the mind of sin - is loving as God loves.

And this Power Must Already Be in You though it is not of you. Loving you perfectly as you Are - and given to your willingness to share it.
Be still for no reason but to take a shower in being - and then if there are issues to address let them rise to be answered.
Restlessness is properly, the call to rest.

in Gratitude

Brian