In America, we inherited the dream of pursuing happiness.

While our pursuit of happiness has helped turn us into a mighty nation, it’s time we continue our evolution into a more direct realization of happiness.

Its like most of us believed in a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow.

While on this pursuit, most of us, to some degree, lost ourselves, compromising our present life in order to have a better life in the future.

I can say I never got much happier, in fact I become more overwhelmed and frustrated because I never got THERE.

What if there is no “there” to get to?

Have you been trying to make something happen but find yourself “grabbing dead branches?”

What if your salvation comes from pursuing nothing.  What?  That’s right, I said:

“Pursue nothing.”

No, I do not mean stop having goals. I mean pursue no–thing.

The compulsive mind has to have something as the object of salivation, whether it be an edible delight waiting at the coffee shop or the idea “how much happier I’ll be when I have so and so” This way of thinking is cause for work-a-holism and other addictions because we don’t feel happy inside now.

At any moment you can step off the mind’s exhausting treadmill and pursue nothing. There is nothing of lasting substance in this illusionary outer world.

There is no happiness in the future, because there is no future. The only place happiness can be found is here, now, and within.

I invite you to invest this precious moment in yourself and breathe into your heart.

There’s nothing out there you need to get.

Invest a moment to find what is already here.

You can notice:

I am breathing. 

I am alive, in my body, and beyond. 

I am blessed with this miracle of life – I am. 

I am still here. 

I am always here!

Instead of pursue a thing, pursue that which is behind it all,

that which is beyond words.

As soon as we say “God” or “Spirit”, we limit the unsayable.

We are still caught in our mind’s obsessive need to define – based upon memory.

In the space between thoughts, the great unknown can be birthed into the known.

This is where your Soul’s gift is incubated and hatched.

Your Soul’s gift is so precious it automatically summons great loving support, like seeing a young chick stepping out of it’s egg into the sunshine. This innocent yellow furry chick automatically moves us into loving action.

Not action to get something in return.

No, we are just moved by the unsayable miracle of the present moment.

Where did it all come from? No-thing.

Pursue nothing, so…

the original concept of your existence can be realized into form.

There is nothing to do.

By overdoing it, you abort your deeper purpose–yet again.

For once, just sit here,

Like a pregnant hen

And give birth to yourself.

Your gifts are many…

but missed unless you can stop what you’re doing and recognize them.

More than anything, you need to trust the unknown within yourself.

Say these words out loud now:

“I am a divine blessing to the world – today!”

Watch what happens when you make a choice to trust the unknown within yourself when asked the following questions.

Breathe, and allow the inner pressure and heat of your “inner gold” to build until it must be expressed.

Allow yourself to be surprised. Get a pen and paper.

Trust a specific answer to this question will come in seconds:

What is my gift to the world now? 

Without thought, write or speak it out.

Once you have answered that, here’s question two:

Why is my gift important?

You are invited to leave a comment below about your experience.