Sometimes we become so focused on what we perceive as missing in our lives that we fail to notice all that’s right in our life. Finding ourselves in this place can be a bit like a slippery slope…the more we think that perceived missing thing is the key to our happiness, the more happiness eludes us.

To better illustrate this slippery slope, imagine a blank sheet of copy paper with one bold dot somewhere on the page, where the dot represents the perceived missing thing in our life and the white space represents all that is good and right in our life…

When we allow ego to take over our thinking, all of our energy and attention is directed at the dot (aka “the thing that would make us happy”, according to ego), instead of the white space (aka “the space where happiness already resides, if we could only recognize it”).

Ego loves to take over our thoughts by directing our attention to the dot, instead of the white space, so much so, that we often don’t even realize that’s what’s going (if we did, we wouldn’t be fooled by …

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