We eventually realise that our partners, jobs, religions, achievements, possessions, won't make us happy. Not permanently anyway, not the kind of ever-present happiness we truly seek.
This is dis-illusionment. The breaking-up of illusions. It manifests as anxiety, depression, mid-life crises…
And disillusionment can be a wonderful thing. For contained within its sacred core is an invitation to go beyond all those comforts and pleasures that never really delivered what they promised, and rediscover That Which Never Changes — our true nature, our true content-ment prior to the external content of our lives.
When you realize that nothing, no “thing”, ever has the power to make you permanently happy, you receive a deeper invitation: to realise that nothing, the No-Thing that you are, IS the source of true happiness.
Nothing can make you happy – and that is the reason for joy.
— Jeff Foster