Discontentment

Discontentment is largely disliked, and people try to eliminate it. It is not in itself bad: the addictive process seeks to avoid, suppress, or paste over discontentment. The spiritual process seeks to learn from it and remove it by either (a) removing the illusions that give rise to it or (b) withdrawing life from old, expired areas and expanding life into new, uncharted areas whose call is the cause of the discontentment. In other words, discontentment requires new insight or a reconfiguration of activity. In the latter case, its origin is divine. It is the creative spark which encouraged God to create the universe in the first place: the discontentment arising from the unfulfilled need to share by extension. In sharing and extending we're hearing the true call of the divine spark of discontentment within us.