"The real search isn't a search into tomorrow, or to anywhere other than now. It's starting to look in to the very nature of this moment... look clearly into your own experience. Stop chasing freedom or happiness...Stand in your own two shoes, and examine closely: What's happening right here and right now?...Even in this moment there may be some suffering, some unhappiness, but even if there is, is it possible to no longer push against it, to try to get rid of it, to try to get somewhere else?" (Falling into Grace, p. 78).
Adyashanti suggests that we "reverse the whole process of looking for satisfaction on the outside, and look at precisely the place where you are standing. See if what you are looking for isn't already present in your experience." (Falling into Grace, p. 79).
If God and I are One than perhaps I already am the Peace, and the Love and the Joy that I am seeking. If my awareness is focused on getting somewhere else I will not recognize that I already am who and what I want to be...One with God.
Oh, my friend, all that you see of me is just a shell,
and the rest belongs to love.
Rumi ♥
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