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The Ground of Being
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Our quest for peace - contentment, rest, fulfillment - is, paradoxically, most often filled with frustration, anger, exhaustion, and even rage. Make more money, acquire necessary things, secure fulfilling relationships, and fulfill sensual desires.
Over and over again, great obstacles present themselves. Storms arise. Obstacles roll over us. People thwart us. Disasters destroy all that we have worked for and take away those that we love.
And when we find ourselves naked and afraid - when all is lost except loss itself - where do we go? What do we do?
We could, like the great phoenix, resolve to rise from the ashes and rebuild our lives by starting over and repeating our quest.
Or, perhaps we could reconsider the quest itself and reexamine what it is we seek.
If what we seek is peace, which is an inward state of being - a mode of consciousness - then why do we assume at the outset that our quest must be the triumphal conquest of external circumstance?
If what we truly desire is an inward oasis, then our quest must be an inner odyssey.
The journey to fulfillment lies wholly within. And the deeper we go, the more this truth becomes clear to us, until in our spirit we arrive at the very ground of our being and discover there that the truth really does set you free.
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