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Because the thing that we think we want is not what we want. We want what we think is on the other side of having it. And that experience is already in me. So I can have the experience of, in this case, a house in the south of France before even having the house. At which point I may no longer need to have the house.
We're everything that we're looking for. We're under the impression that it's out there. It's the means to getting that experience. And that's the facade. That's the lie. That's the pretense. And that's why people are victims of their circumstance. But they're not. It's the perception of the circumstance, cuz they think there's something lacking in them in the first place.
So then you realize, you know, that we are everything that we're looking for. We're just collapsing it with the outside world as though that's where it's at. And so then we effort our lives away trying to get what we think is going to garner the very experience that's actually available to us right now, which I would put in words like freedom, peace, love, inherent worth. They're all there. Mhm. And that's why life is a revelatory process. It's not about getting something.