We search for happiness, love, peace, fulfillment, enlightenment, or God. We believe that something is missing and that, somewhere in the future, we will finally discover it.
But what if the feeling of lack itself is the misunderstanding?
Imagine someone desperately searching for their glasses while they are already resting on their face. Every effort to find them only reinforces the belief that they are absent.
Perhaps the spiritual search contains a similar paradox.
What we are seeking is not hidden behind a mountain, in a Himalayan cave, or within a special state of consciousness. It is present before every experience. It is that which makes all experience possible.
Thoughts come and go.
Emotions come and go.
Sensations come and go.
Bodies are born and die.
Yet there is something that remains throughout all these changes.
That something cannot be seen as an object, because it is the very observer. It cannot be thought about, because it is present before thought. It cannot be found, because it was never lost.
Perhaps true spirituality is not about acquiring knowledge, but about letting go of false conclusions.
It is not about attaining the Self.
It is about recognizing that we have never been anything else.
The amnesia may seem long.
But remembrance is always only an instant away.
Or, more precisely, it is here now.
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