Existential okayness

Relating to the world from a foundation of peace

It's tempting to believe that our internal sense of validity and wellbeing stems from the people, possessions, or accomplishments in our life.

This assumption spirals us into a self-perpetuating, fruitless search for fulfillment.

Peace - existential okayness - is always available within. It bears no relationship to external conditions.

When you're not lost, when you're at home within yourself and know it, and know this as the only place you can be, things rectify themselves.

You embrace life as it comes rather than trying to wrangle it into whatever particular configuration you've convinced yourself is necessary for happiness. You strive for change cheerfully, not out of fear.

You engage with the world out of joy rather than neediness. You become more interested in what you can contribute than what you can get.

If more of us were coming at life from this angle, the world would probably start going uncrazy too.