Our minds are conditioned societally and egoically to exist in a constant state of discomfort, of yearning: states of dissatisfaction and seeming incompleteness. When separated from time, the mind lashes out, feeling anxious and as though it should be doing something, it must be forgetting something important. The ego wants us to always be existing in time, to always be doing something it deems of import, so that we can have some false sense of self-grandiosity which will trick us into thinking, for a time, that we are somehow better than others and that we have somehow “made it”. Often when we give our selves a moment to relax, our mind still has this sense that it should be doing something else, and when we don’t, we feel guilty. According to the mind, it’s never okay to simply be.
Humanity is the only creature on the planet that exists in a constant state of striving and rushing to get things that don’t essentially matter to our survival. We rush and rush, strive and strive and still we are dissatisfied. We exist in a constant trance of busyness. It is never enough that we have our basic needs of food, clothing, and shelter met, because there is something else we must find that will make us happy. And once we find that thing, then we must find something else. We would be much better off if we accepted the invitation to stop this. To bask in our being and to appreciate, for once, life as it is without our frenetic sense of searching, yearning, and wanting. We really can exist without those. In fact, once we do, we open up to a whole other level of being that is not encumbered by persistent dissatisfaction: peace, stillness, and silence.