Go Within or Go Without

The last few days I've been pondering what I perceive as a need in my life -- a lack -- something getting in the way of my happiness. I wanted to share this experience with you so that it may help you find your own truth.

Specifically, I thought I was lacking in the experience of intimacy -- that is being able to share a deep feeling of connection and oneness with others.

I went so far as to question how I could remove myself from this desire -- to pull myself out of it and take a detached perspective.

Fortunately, I came to my senses. Or rather I moved away from my senses. In other words, I was previously looking in the wrong place. I was relying on what my senses told me about the world to decide what it is I need, and what it is I lack.

With a sudden clarity of insight (more like a "duh" kind of moment), I remembered what I knew all along, that everything is already inside of you. Inside everyone of us you have the infinite potential of the divine. The only thing coming between me and that great truth was my own fear -- a fear that I myself created. Through that realization, the fear no longer had any power. It became an illusion, and I could then let it go. This allowed me to open up to the truth, which is that you are already deeply connected to infinite consciousness. By extension, you are already deeply connected with everyone and everything.

With that realization, all that's left to do to turn this knowing into experience is to share that feeling with everyone I encounter in my life, but especially those I am already closest to.

I'm sure it'll take a little practice on my part for this to really sink in, but practice I shall.

I hope that when you start to dwell on something in your life that you think you are missing, that you'll take a moment to go inside where it will be waiting for you.