Distractions

I've been reading about Johnny Cash, the famous singer/songwriter and his wife June Carter. If fame and money could buy happiness, surely they would have been happy, right? Because they sang lotsa songs, made lotsa money, had lotsa things. But were they really happy? Johnny Cash was a drug addict and in later years, so was June Carter. June spent the last couple years of her life eating a lot of cheesecake -- several times a day. Even some of their children became addicted to drugs.

What does this tell you? What were they doing, with all those drugs and cheesecake? They were trying to escape from the pain. They were trying to distract themselves from the pain. (Some of you who are more advanced will have read the lesson, DISTRACTIONS, by now.) 

It's fine to make money. It's fine to be famous. Cheesecake can also be fine. But none of these things can lead to genuine happiness. People who achieve so much in this world, but haven't found Truth, can get really lost, because if all the money and things money can buy didn't bring then peace, then what? What? Buy another new car? Record a new song? More cheesecake? What? What will take away the pain forever and make a person happy, peaceful, and fulfilled -- what? -- This is the question an honest person must ask themselves. In reality, we only need one car. We only need one house. Johnny and June had an abundance of cars and houses.

Johnny Cash and June Carter "believed" in God -- but what is a belief, really? As students in the school of angels you are requested to examine your believes under the bright light of conscious awareness. The only way to freedom is to find out for yourself what is true. Only by letting go of beliefs -- seeing through beliefs -- mainly the belief in yourself as an entity separate from God -- can you cease to identify with the false nature -- and identify instead with your true nature -- which IS genuine happiness.