Here to be found

Dear friend,

What if instead of searching, you chose to find it? Now, at this moment? This may sound paradoxical, because you are still searching, right? But searching is like running with the goal of eventually reaching a point where you can stop running, like working an entire week with the goal of eventually not having to work anymore and having a weekend. Do you see the irony? There is only a searching because you have consciously or unconsciously assumed that you cannot find it. Searching implies that ‘something’ is lost, that ‘something’ is not present, while finding speaks of the presence of that which you think you are searching for. Finding is about discovering, encountering, acknowledging and remembering where it has been all along. Now, when we begin to see that the love we all seek, the happiness we hope to experience, the peace we long for, that everything we as humans wish for in the deepest part of our being is already there, then we no longer need to search because then we can experience how it can be found. Even if you do not find it immediately, which is likely, you can still choose not to end up in the search again because only by consciously stopping running can you experience, in that silent moment, where you thought you were running to. Perhaps then you will see that deep down you cannot be lost because you have always been at the destination, as long as we continue to live from the idea that we have to go along the way, we will miss where we already are. If there is anything that can be said about our lives it is that we are (apparently) on our way to arrive at the insight that we were there all along.

“There is only a searching because you have consciously or unconsciously assumed that you cannot find it.”

May your week be full of wonder, sven