We miss life's essential purpose and pleasure by being too busy. We are too busy in our minds as well as our activities. We work ourselves into mental and physical frenzies of exhaustion and despair with the dysfunction of too much. We think too much, eat too much, work too much, spend too much, and talk too much. We figure if a little bit is good, then more must necessarily be better. We strive for more success, more understanding, more money, more perfection, more happiness, and more peace. And in our striving we completely miss what we already
are and what we already have, which is more than enough to bring us all of the happiness and joy that is possible on earth. Nothing external can do it for us, not in any kind of a lasting way, and yet externals are all that we push towards- the trappings of the ego and the false illusions of materialism that appear so real.
Everything we need, we have within us. We are already perfect. We are whole and complete just the way we are. We spend so much time trying to figure it all out, and yet, the answer is simple; so simple it utterly eludes us. The purpose of life is to live it, and the reason for being is to be. And if we truly accept that, just as it is (don't over-complicate it!) then our satisfaction is so rich and so full that it brings tears to our eyes... and we want for nothing. We are full at last! We are full to the brim with joy and gratitude and love for our lives!
I stop doubting and pushing and wanting to be somewhere other than I am. I fully accept and rejoice in the gifts of the moment.
