Being happy

Posted by Chris Morris on 8th October 2009

This passage from John Pepper is resonating with me this week.

“What we do not know is that when we have travelled the world over in search of the Holy Grail, ransacked the texts of the saints and sages for clues as to its whereabouts, pleaded with the night to yield it to us, abased ourselves in rituals, followed the light paths of romantic love and relationship and the dark ones of drugs and disorder, and done the million and one things it appears we have to do before we finally grind to a halt in exhaustion, our happiness still tantalisingly out of reach, then we see with a snort of absurdity that there is nowhere left to reach out to; that all the words have gone. The running, brother and sister, is done. The answer is contained here in this frail being in this dark night on this lasted heath; here or nowhere. The Holy Grail is us.”



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2 responses:

Carol

8th October 2009 (10:11 am)

That’s lovely Chris


Alan L

8th October 2009 (12:04 pm)

I think more people are waking up to this sentiment than have ever done so before.

Why now? My guess is because our society has reached a level of affluence where it is possible for many more people to actually seek out, and pursue perceived avenues of enlightenment than they were able to historically. When they find such avenues lacking they continue to seek elsewhere until all options are exhausted. It is a rare person who can discard an avenue without trying it first. (Indeed, it is human nature to learn by experience not by being told – how many times when children are told “Don’t touch!” do they reach out and burn their fingers anyway?)

If one does not have the material means to pursue an avenue, one persists in dreaming of it as one’s salvation. Only experience teaches this is not so.


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