Direct your eye right inward,
and you'll find A thousand regions
in your mind Yet undiscovered.
Travel them and be Expert
in home-cosmography.
(Thoreau, Walden)
TRY: The next time you feel a sense of
dissatisfaction, of something being missing or not
quite right, turn inward just as an experiment. See if
you can capture the energy of that very moment.
Instead of picking up a magazine or going to the
movies, calling a friend or looking for something to
eat or acting up in one way or another, make a place
for yourself. Sit down and enter into your breathing, if
only for a few minutes. Don't look for anything -
neither flowers nor light nor a beautiful view. Don't
extol the virtues of anything or condemn the
inadequacy of anything. Don't even think to yourself,
"I am going inward now." Just sit Reside at the center
of the world. Let things be as they are.