The mind lives on “more.” Misery starts with “wanting more and more.” Misery makes you dense and keeps you on the surface level of life.
The Higher Self is subtle. To move from dense matter to the subtle, you go through the finest level of creation—the atom.
To overcome aversion, hatred, jealousy, cravings, or entanglements, you have to go to the atom, which means accepting a teeny tiny bit of all this creation.
It may be difficult to accept something you don’t like, but you can definitely accept a tiny bit of it—an atom. This acceptance has to be done in a meditative state. The moment you accept that one atom, you see change happen.
This process can also help you feel more satisfied with those things you like in life. For example, suppose you love someone, you want more and more of them, yet there is no fulfillment. When you take an atom, you’re saying that just at a glance, a word, or a moment will be good enough. When you're satisfied with that, it’s enough to bring a shift, and there is fulfillment. Take just one atom of that person, and that's enough to bring fulfillment to you.
Though the river is vast, a little sip quenches your thirst. Though Earth has so much food, just a little bite satisfies your hunger. All that you need are tiny bits. Accept a tiny bit of everything in life — that will bring you fulfillment.
Tonight, go to bed feeling that you are satisfied, taking a tiny part of Divinity with you. Satisfaction comes from the subtle and not from “more and more.”
