‘Why don’t we all know this!’

‘Why don’t they teach this at school!’

Or ‘How come people never talk about this?!’

These are a few of the answers you get when people drop into a lighter way of living, without trying harder.

When they find peace of mind in a place that was always really close.

And when they consciously feel something they’ve never consciously felt.

I used to have different answers to those questions.

Like: it’s important for the economy, the intellect simply has a hold over us, or people are just fucking ignorant.

But this morning, when a client shared the surprisingly cool experience they were having and asked why that’s not common knowledge, I said:

Because that’s how life works, and keeps working.

Yup.

Uhu.

But of course I didn’t leave it at that, and I rambled on for ten more minutes after the initial response.

I spoke about the importance of feeling like we’re looking for something.

About the magic and weirdness of finding what was never lost in the first place.

About the diversity in ideas and opinions and dreams and plans we can all entertain.

And the endless subtleties in feelings and emotions.

And I also mentioned the infinite ways we’ve come up with to explain life and make it a bit more bearable and controllable.

All the illusions, all the stories, and all the different elements, come from our capacity to create and believe and feel that vibrant mix from moment to moment.

In order to make it REALLY work and to keep us going, we need to be able to feel deeply inspired, and it doesn’t matter if the inspiration comes from the inner urge to reconnect to our true nature, but we use it to become filthy rich.

This profound sense of looking for something, of missing an important bit, is such a powerful force behind life.

And so versatile in its applications.

It helps us to create and appreciate beautiful things.

It motivates us to go to war (which might not be a brilliant thing, per se, but at least makes for great variety).

It allows us to feel in love with, whatever.

It fuels the search for power, peace of mind, success, company, and growth, to name a few fundamental things.

Besides, if we didn’t have the ability to feel as lost as many of us feel, we’d never get inspired enough to go looking for a way out -or a way in.

And, of course, finding it wouldn’t taste as sweet as it tastes right now.

Most of us don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes (well, probably all of us), but that’s not a flaw in the system.

It speaks of its perfection.

Who could have made up the phenomenon where what we desperately look for is using our eyes to try and find it?

It seems that discovering all those things is way more adventurous and amazing than knowing them from the start.

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(Photo by @brittgaiser, for Unsplash)