The endless desire for more, more, more…

We are taught to seek fulfilment outside ourselves, rather than within.

The clothes makes the person. The job makes the man. Is life really meant to be measured in such material ways? Absolutely not, for the sole fact that we are not mere matter, we are the essence within. There is no measuring to be done. After all, what is there to measure, and by whom? Our true presence, our consciousness within, is formless! We are not the temporary form we appear to be.

We are conditioned by culture to believe that happiness is found through consumption, that a person’s success is determined by whatever they are able to achieve and acquire. The more you have the happier you will be—or, so it is thought.

We are desperate to be more beautiful, to be more successful, to have more attention, more love, more fun, more friends, and more money, cars and homes. We want to play more and have more exciting experiences. We want more spirituality, more connection, more passion, more purpose and more meaning.

We want more knowledge. We want more answers! We want more truth—and so, we keep looking.

Sadly, for some people the quest for more manifests itself as a subconscious race to the bottom—to have more hardship, more drama, more depression and more misery. We become comforted by our suffering when it’s the one thing that’s most familiar to us. And so, it becomes a competition and another opportunity to have more of something than someone else.

“I have more pain than you do—I win!”

We are continually looking over our shoulder, comparing ourselves to one another to see what else we might be missing, to see what we need more of in order to be more happy.

Strangely, society seems to reward us for all of our “wants”, and this only perpetuates our false sense of satisfaction. We give praise to one another for having such highly respected goals, plans, wishes and dreams. We get a rush of egoic pride from such recognition. We pat each other on the back and say, “Congratulations, you’ve achieved so much! What’s next? What more do you hope to do? What more do you hope to create and produce? What more do you hope to be?”

What few people understand is that the more you want, the more you seem to lack.

And the more you believe you lack, the more unhappy you become. The mind is nothing but a wanting machine, and the more you trust its neurotic nonsense the more deluded you will be.

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