Cauta inauntru

Seeking is a word often applied to the spiritual path, and many people
are proud to call themselves seekers. Often, they are the same people
who once chased too hard after money, sex, alcohol, or work. With the
same addictive intensity they now hope to find God, the soul, the
higher self. The problem is that seeking begins with a false
assumption. I don't mean the assumption that materialism is corrupt
and spirituality is pure. Yes, materialism can become all-consuming,
but that's not the really important point. Seeking is doomed because
it is a chase that takes you outside yourself.

Whether the object is God or money makes no real difference.
Productive seeking requires that you throw out all assumptions that
there is a prize to be won. This means acting without hope of rising
to some ideal self, hope being a wish that you'll get somewhere better
than the place you started from. You are starting from yourself, and
it's the self that contains all the answers. So you have to give up on
the idea that you must go from A to B.

There is no linear path when the goal isn't somewhere else. You must
also discard fixed judgments about high and low, good and evil, holy
and profane. The one reality includes everything in its tangle of
experiences, and what we are trying to find is the experiencer who is
present no matter what experience you are having.