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Finding the Eternal Present: Our Journey Back to Peace

by DW Green — May 21, 2025

We’ve been seeking through external circumstances has been our nature all along, waiting patiently for us to return home to the eternal present.”

In our fast-paced world of constant notifications, deadlines, and expectations, we often forget a profound truth about our existence: peace, undisturbable peace, which is independent of circumstances, is our inherent and ever-present nature.

This isn’t just a comforting thought—it’s a recognition of something fundamental about who we are beneath the noise of daily life. We spend countless hours chasing happiness through achievements, possessions, or relationships, yet what we’re seeking has been with us all along. Thus, peace and happiness, in all circumstances and under all conditions, are two ever-present qualities of our Self.

Why, then, do we feel so disconnected from this natural state? The answer lies in our relationship with time. Our minds construct an “imaginary self”—one that exists primarily in memories of the past or projections of the future. Such is the fate of this imaginary self, to be forever escaping the Now in favor of a past or future where we long to be.

When we reminisce about better times or anxiously anticipate what’s coming next, we abandon the only moment where peace can actually be experienced—the present. This constant time-traveling of the mind creates a perpetual state of subtle dissatisfaction, a feeling that something is missing or that we’ll be complete once a certain condition is met.

The paradox is that our search for peace often takes us further from it. Like a person frantically searching for glasses
that are already perched atop their head, we look everywhere except where peace actually resides—in our natural state of being, accessible only in this moment.

The journey back to our inherent peace doesn’t require adding something new to our lives but rather removing the obstacles—primarily our habitual escape from the present—that obscure what’s always been there. Through practices that anchor us in the Now—whether mindful breathing, conscious awareness, or simply fully engaging with whatever we’re doing—we can begin to recognize the peace that was never actually lost.

In this recognition lies true freedom: the understanding that what we’ve been seeking through external circumstances has been our nature all along, waiting patiently for us to return home to the eternal present.