Seek not outside yourself. For it will fail, and you will weep each time an idol falls. Heaven cannot be found where it is not, and there can be no peace excepting there. Each idol that you worship when God calls will never answer in His place. There is no other answer you can substitute, and find the happiness His answer brings. Seek not outside yourself. For all your pain comes simply from a futile search for what you want, insisting where it must be found. What if it is not there? Do you prefer that you be right or happy? Be you glad that you are told where happiness abides, and seek no longer eleswhere. You will fail. But it is given you to know the truth, and not to seek for it outside yourself.
My old sponsor, she was the one who introduced me to The Course in Miracles, she used to ask me, "Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy?" I don't remember running into where this was in the course Text of The Course in Miracles, so when I found it I thought I needed to post it. When she first asked me this question I either wanted both or if I had to choose I chose right. Now I clearly choose to be happy knowing that, that is what is right for me today!
I have used the question on people I sponser in A.A., (the lady who asked me this question was also my A.A. sponsor) and it has been equally helpful to them in unraveling certain spiritual problems they have had.
I hope that if you stumble upon this that it is equally helpful to you! You are also able to post questions in this venue and I will do my best to find you an A.A. and/or A Course in Miracles based suggestion for you.
God's Peace, Sid Og
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