 But it's the logic we live by of trying to improve our experience moment-to-moment is ironically largely what degrades our experience. It's largely what keeps us from recognizing that the present moment and consciousness as it already is admits of real discovery of intrinsic well-being and intrinsic tranquility and intrinsic equanimity and intrinsic compassion and in fact unconditional love and many of these very positive emotions that people talk about. All of that stuff can be found sort of before anything changes in your experience, before you are in the right relationship, before you get the job you're hoping to get, before you get better from the illness you're hoping to get better from and whatever those contingencies are in your life where you think, if only I can solve this problem, I'll be back to zero. The truth is that that is a kind of mirage and most people never discover it to be so. We just live our lives seeking happiness and seeking to become happy and that's the implicit in everything we're attempting to do and yet there is this recognition which is itself meditation that you actually can't become happy, you can only be happy. Most people are looking for are good enough reasons by virtue of changing their life in the world to simply get off the treadmill for some moments at a time and recognize that the present moment is enough. If I had just bought GameStop at the right moment, then I would actually be able to just relax and enjoy my life in the present and again, that is a mirage even when it seems to happen for many of us, something great happens and you're just high-fiving everyone around you, that lasts for what, 15 minutes, 5 hours and then you're faced with the same long emergency of just what do I do next and how do I scratch the itch that is now back.