Consider that the nature of our being is the peace and happiness we seek. In other words, what we essentially are is quite literally the peace and happiness we desire. If this seems unclear that's simply because although we all know ourselves, not everyone clearly knows themselves as we are essentially.

 

For many people this unclear, essential self-knowledge leads to the belief that we are all limited individuals who are defined by the circumstances of our experience. Rationally, this belief then implies that in order to alleviate the unhappiness which accompanies this sense of self-limitation we must change the circumstances we experience.​

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However, pursuing happiness in this way leaves our fundamental lack of clear, essential self-knowledge completely unaddressed which ultimately only serves to perpetuate our sense of limitation and unhappiness.

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The lasting happiness we desire appears clearly when we recognize that we are not limited in the ways we seem to be. Furthermore, only by experientially exploring the nature of ourselves as we are essentially will this truth be recognized.