Giving Up Would Be Too Easy

Everyone wants to be happy and no one wants to suffer, but very few people understand the real causes of happiness and suffering. We tend to look for happiness outside ourself, thinking that if we had the right house, the right car, the right job, and the right friends we would be truly happy. We spend almost all our time adjusting the external world, trying to make it conform to our wishes. All our life we have tried to surround ourself with people and things that make us feel comfortable, secure, or stimulated, yet still we have not found pure and lasting happiness.

It is time we sought happiness from a different source. Happiness is a state of mind, so the real source of happiness must lie within the mind, not in external conditions. If our mind is pure and peaceful we shall be happy, regardless of our external circumstances, but if it is impure and unpeaceful we can never be truly happy, no matter how hard we try to change our external conditions. We could change our home or our partner countless times, but until we change our restless, discontented mind we shall never find true happiness.

-Dharma readings.

I've come to terms that yellow is my gold and green is just some far off place. I'm not sure what exactly it is that I'm waiting for but...

It's nice to know I'm not the only one and thank you to the person(persons) who left the four sheets of Plexiglass for me in the foreway of the building. Dave retrieved two of my illustrations from a show we had back in march. There is one more of mine and one of his a loof in the office of a bar downtown. I will see about capturing them myself.

Does anyone remember lennie kirks part in that alien workshop video...it was grey. 1998 or so? yeah, switch, kind of big wheels. awesome.

I tend to forget.