Our country and economy were built on the creation and perpetuation of spiritual dissonance. This push for instant gratification and the constant movement/activity of our bodies and minds keeps us off balance. So off balance that we haven’t a clue we are holding our breaths and missing every precious moment. 

Spiritual dissonance keeps us blind and grasping for something that cannot be attained in our state of unawareness. We are socialized this way. It keeps us ignorant, blind, unfulfilled and deeply indebted mentally, physically, spiritually and financially. Our constant chase for “happiness” is perpetually out of our grasp, but close enough that we continue buying into the lie of attainment through possessions and everything outside of ourselves.

Spiritual contentment, what is it?

It is like experiencing a sunrise on an isolated beach (with or without loved ones nearby). Feeling the sand under our feet and between our toes; feeling the ocean breeze and mist on our skin; the smell and taste of the salty air; hearing the waves roll and the bird’s song; feeling the vibration and energy in our core of the waves crashing and receding.

This contentment is a gift that we can experience anytime and everywhere we are. We need only to envision that beach sunrise or other vision in order to experience it in this moment. It can be attained free of charge, under any and all circumstances and without attachment or debt.

It is simple to attain, although takes commitment and practice. We spend our lives focused on false beliefs and chasing them. As well as beating ourselves up for failing to attain the unattainable bliss we seek. Whatever it is we honestly seek, is what we will truly find.

Our truth, happiness, contentment and peace lie within ourselves. We need only to seek it, to listen to our entire selves. Too easily do we allow our minds, our imaginations to rob us of the present and keep us regretting the past and/or fearful of the future. We focus on those things and people we have no control over, when we only have control over ourselves.

Today, my journey consists of embodying those thoughts, activities and behaviors that bring me closer to spiritual peace.   

What direction are you headed in?

Written June 7, 2020