Pursuit of Happiness

• new environments, new people

• trying something before you feel ready

• saying what you actually think

• taking a risk without guarantees

• feeling stretched but curious

• choosing differently than your past

• investing in yourself (time, money, energy)

• letting go of control / outcome

• being seen in a new version of you

• short term discomfort → long term change

Energy Neutral - familiar, patterned, “authentic” because it’s rehearsed

• same routines, same outcomes

• repeating old relationship dynamics

• reacting instead of responding

• staying where you’re already “known”

• avoiding change to feel safe

• overthinking instead of acting

• choosing what’s predictable over what’s right

• staying in your comfort identity

• looping the same thoughts/stories

Thought builds relationship, the getting used to things, to people, to ideas. This relationship is time and through time, do what you will, that flash can never be seen. Meditation is the ending of thought and the beginning of emptiness. There is no resting place in that emptiness; no thought as experience can take root, which is the beginning of time. From this emptiness, there is love whose death is creation.