I had just paid for my food in the self-service café. Before going out to one of the tables in the courtyard, I looked around for cutlery. Seeing none, I asked the man at the till where it might be found. He replied, “It’s outside, you’ve been looking for it inside!” I laughed.
Usually, we make the opposite mistake. We look on the outside for things which are only to be found on the inside. In particular, we look for sources of happiness outside of ourselves. We expect relationships, jobs, governments and innumerable other things to make us happy. But the source of our happiness, or unhappiness, is on the inside. We have been looking in the wrong place!
