The bliss of cosmic consciousness.

The ego makes a fundamental confusion between means and end as it always does. Regarding the body as an end, the ego has no real use for it because it is not an end. You must have noticed an outstanding characteristic of every end that the ego has accepted as its own. When you have achieved it, it has not satisfied you. This is why the ego is forced to shift ceaselessly from one goal to another, so that you will continue to hope it can yet offer you something. T-8.VIII.2:3-7

A Course in Miracles (pp. 302-303). Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition. 

As people sometimes say, “There’s always something!” or “(S)he’s always on to the next big thing.” Psychologists call this phenomenon a product of “hedonic adaptation” meaning that when the novelty and initial pleasure wear off there has to be more or something else to sustain the high. Today we see this phenomenon in our digital age as FOMO, the fear of missing out.

In Unitarian Universalism some of us join together to affirm and promote the free and responsible search for truth and meaning which involves seeking not pleasure or happiness or joy but bliss. Bliss is not found in the world of the ego but in the world of God, unconditional love.

Today it is suggested that we consider what the things we seek are for. If they are merely for pleasure and happiness we will fail in the long run because these things of the ego cannot give us bliss. What we seek is the oneness with our Transcendent Source which provides the bliss of cosmic consciousness.