Outside World
When you turn to the outside world as a source of your perceived happiness, you lose, give up your heart and you lose your joy and when you step back out to the place that it exists in, you have been numb in that darkness for so long that you forget what it’s like to experience it and are even afraid to experience it.
Because what you do know is that if you do experience it, then the outside world does not mean anything. It means you have to give up your outside world to get your heart back, give it all up. Then and only then do you get your joy, your bliss, your happiness.
The problem for most people is that they perceive that giving up the outside world is the end of their life and identity. They don’t understand its identity.
Understand that in the darkness you leave behind is the outside perceived world that you thought was going to give you or replace your joy. It never did. It was always still empty. No matter how much you did, no matter how many people, no matter how many things, no matter how many addictions you have, the outside is a delusion; there it is darkness only reflecting the light that you have within. If you have abandoned the light within, then that darkness cannot reflect anything.
Reclaim your light within.