Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds - Part 4 - Beyond Thinking

Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds - Directed by Daniel Schmidt

We are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. However, we live our lives pursuing happiness “out there” as if it is a commodity and have become slaves to our own desires and craving. Happiness isn’t something that can be pursued or purchased like a cheap suit. This is Maya, illusion, the endless play of form.

Thinking has only led to more thinking and more questions. We seek to know the innermost forces which create the world and guide its course. But we conceive of this essence as outside of ourselves, not as a living thing, intrinsic to our own nature. It was the famous psychiatrist Carl Jung who said, “one who looks outside dreams, one who looks inside awakes.” It is not wrong to desire to be awake, to be happy. What is wrong is to look for happiness outside when it can only be found inside.