You look for happiness on the outside because your inherent nature is happiness. Wait, does that make sense? Even though you are made of happiness, you’re looking for it on the outside.  I don’t get it. Here’s the situation. Yes, happiness, better yet bliss, is your nature — but you’re not looking at your inherent nature, so you think you don’t have it. Thus, you feel you are missing something essential to you — your bliss filled essence is missing. So, you go looking for it.

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