What’s Missing?
The Missing ‘Peace’
I’ve always been curious and had a feeling there was something more. I knew it couldn’t be found in anything organized; that’s just another set of beliefs keeping me away from myself.
I asked a lot of questions, searched out many books, just needing to know. This brought me to an incessant need to read-all to get that thing- that answer I was looking for.
But it was never enough, until I looked within and saw it there.
The world today seems to be in search of that thing- that feeling of needing more.
I wonder if others have that feeling that something is missing. It makes you wonder: if you do all the right things, have the perfect job, make lots of money, and live in a beautiful house, why is there no sense of fulfillment?
Because it feels like a void, we go out and search for more. We think that if we just get more money, a better job, or a bigger house, we will finally reach that point where everything just comes together.
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But the bigger question is: will it?
We’re running after and acquiring things of the world to satisfy the hunger we feel to be complete. Society certainly tells us that is the way, but we’ve already taken that route and it’s still not forthcoming.
This sense of lack starts with a desire; that desire turns into thought, and that thought turns into more action. It’s a cycle we get caught up in when looking for that happiness outside ourselves.
The truth is, we cannot feel complete with outer things. It’s just a temporary satisfaction that fades with time. Because time runs our lives, we look back and think if we had done things differently, or we look to gaining more in the future to fill that gap within ourselves.
But isn’t all this search but a ruse that ego places us in, promising something that can never replace the true feeling of completeness? If we get caught up in time and ruled by it, we are sidestepping the very thing that could fulfill us. As we get caught up in the world, we cannot escape time and its trap. There can never be true peace when we are running away from it. The peace never leaves us; we leave it by running and searching.
When we turn that search around and look within, a new dimension opens up. It’s not that we have to disregard the outer, but just that we match it with the inner.
Our core being is the fulfillment we are seeking. It is the mind turned within to seek its own source, refusing to get trapped in the distraction of overthinking. This bridges our sense of separation from the rest of life, providing a feeling of wholeness-the very thing we were avoiding by getting caught up in our problems.
We are the peace we are seeking, albeit outwardly. We can go through our lives chasing that elusive happiness that always seems to slip through our fingers, or we can begin to turn that around, quiet the mind, and discover the true gems of life. Actually, it is our own life we miss when we are caught up in other things.
What’s missing will be found; it will, because we already possess it. We just need to look.
