In episode six of The Wandering Monk Podcast, we explore the profound and universal yearning for True Happiness as illuminated by A Course in Miracles. Unlike the fleeting, conditional happiness often portrayed by the world, the Course reveals that True Happiness is radically different it is not subject to opposites, such as sadness or loss. The world teaches us that happiness is something to be pursued, attained, and even lost, dependent on external circumstances or material gain. However, the Course offers a deeper understanding, one rooted in nondualism: the recognition that happiness, in its truest form, has no opposite.

I will read from two sections from chapter 21 for A Course In Miracles. The Last Unanswered Question and The Inner Shift. 

The Last Unanswered Question

13. Elusive happiness, or happiness in changing form that shifts with time and place, is an illusion that has no meaning. ²Happiness must be constant, because it is attained by giving up the wish for the in constant. ³Joy cannot be perceived except through constant vision. ⁴And constant vision can be given only those who wish for constancy. ⁵The power of the Son of God’s desire remains the proof that he is wrong who sees himself as helpless. ⁶Desire what you want, and you will look on it and think it real. ⁷No thought but has the power to release or kill. ⁸And none can leave the thinker’s mind, or leave him unaffected. T-21.VII.13:1-8

The Inner Shift

1. Are thoughts, then, dangerous? ²To bodies, yes! ³The thoughts that seem to kill are those that teach the thinker that he can be killed. ⁴And so he “dies” because of what he learned. ⁵He goes from life to death, the final proof he valued the inconstant more than constancy. ⁶Surely he thought he wanted happiness. ⁷Yet he did not desire it because it was the truth, and therefore must be constant.

2. The constancy of joy is a condition quite alien to your understanding. ²Yet if you could even imagine what it must be, you would desire it although you understand it not. ³The constancy of happiness has no exceptions; no change of any kind. ⁴It is unshakable as is the Love of God for His creation. ⁵Sure in its vision as its Creator is in what He knows, happiness looks on everything and sees it is the same. ⁶It sees not the ephemeral, for it desires everything be like itself, and sees it so. ⁷Nothing has power to confound its constancy, because its own desire cannot be shaken. ⁸It comes as surely unto those who see the final question is necessary to the rest, as peace must come to those who choose to heal and not to judge. T-21.VIII.1:1–2:8

Let us join deeply in prayer for True Happiness for each and everyone. Amen