‘There is something you have always been looking for. A sense of wholeness. Of being utterly at home. Of being, simply and completely, yourself. You have touched it in a moment of unexpected stillness, in laughter with someone you love, in the sight of something so beautiful it stopped your thinking. In those moments, something settled. Everything felt right. And then, as quickly as it came, it seemed to pass.’

In this essay, free for all subscribers, Part Two of a series on the simple fact of being, we discover that whenever you do acquire or achieve something you have longed for, the seeking mind comes briefly to rest, and in that pause, happiness, which was always there in the background but obscured by the seeking mind, is revealed – and explore why the happiness was not caused by the object or the relationship. They simply brought the seeking to an end, and in that ending, what was always already present became visible.