Do You Already Have Everything You Want?

 

A Guide to the Kingdom Within

 

By Michael Alperstein

 

 
 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction
Chapter One: A Journey to Nowhere (Now Here)

Chapter Two: Seeing Truth through the Union of Opposites

Chapter Three: Freedom is the End of Spiritual Seeking  

Chapter Four: Fulfillment through Nothingness

Chapter Five: The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth

 

 

 

Introduction

Most people want something old from their lives to disappear and something new to emerge. This is the seeker’s experience. From within the seeker’s experience we feel a sense of lack, and so a journey begins toward getting things and experiences that we want. But getting what we want is a less than stable solution, because sooner or later the wanting flares up again. A stronger solution lies in the realization that this journey is a subset of something extraordinary and available, a vast container inside that holds all our desires.

Let’s consider that the everyday ‘seeking and finding dance’ causes a split from the deepest inner fulfillment. Let’s rekindle our soul knowing that the game of looking for what we want in life is, primarily, a gripping distraction from the realization that everything we now want gone is already gone, and everything we want is already true and present.

The human intellect will probably not believe this. Therefore, this book is directed toward a deeper knowing; it is directed toward an inner spiritual vision that uses no ideas. Through direct experiential clarity you can recognize this spiritual vision. This requires a ‘silent yes’ to something quite indefinable and divine: The Infinite* inside.

(* Note: The words I capitalize throughout this book are interchangeable. They refer to what you are inwardly, your supreme nature apart from anything that words can convey. My desire is to keep them neutral and vaguely defined, because sometimes definitions stop us from experiential clarity. Alter the words to suit yourself, or replace them with silence. Truth is wordless. All words that attempt to describe the Infinite are subject to the inadequacy of the finite).

Be willing to undergo an organic and natural re-orientation as you read, a shift in the “perception of what you are and what you contain,” giving rise to a rediscovery of inner truths you’ve always known but that the seeker in you tends to forget:  

 

You are the Infinite.

You are the destination.

You contain your heart’s desires.

The fulfillment that comes from inside you is not a second-rate substitute for any of your “true desires” on the outer level. It is the substance and essence of all you are seeking.