Imagine being fully satisfied — completely and deeply satisfied.

It is not easy in a world in which we believe we must stay hungry and stay foolish and compete for opportunity and resources. Yet, see if you can bring yourself to visualise and imagine a moment when you really feel satisfied. Perhaps, this evokes the circumstances that need to align in order to make you truly happy. See if you can challenge yourself, just as a thought experiment, to imagine, just for this moment, that you have indeed fulfilled all your desires — even the most audacious ones.

Imagine looking at others and you found arising in you no sense of judgement or even assessment. You have generosity, spaciousness and empathy for them all. You are able to let them be exactly as they are, just for now.

When you looked at yourself, you were able to be tolerant, kind and spacious to your own flaws and bring compassion, generosity and even love to yourself. Imagine that just for the moment, you are able to let go of all thoughts comparisons and assessments of how you ought to be and release any need to be different, able to let yourself be as you are.

Picture yourself having completed all your tasks, and done them to your complete satisfaction. Everything is finally finished. You are done. You can finally rest, feeling satisfied.

As you immerse yourself in this feeling of satisfaction, permit yourself to gently and effortlessly slow down. Let in some inner ease. Release all your concerns, just for now. Let go of everything.

If any anxiety or inner discomfort arises, disturbing your tranquillity, don’t resist it. If a fear emerges -that you may be neglecting, or overlooking something that matters, don’t resist it either. Let the fear exist without judgment. Acknowledge its presence, experience it, and stay with it. Just let it be. Give it room. Be with it. Let yourself have your compassion and love.

Relax. Give yourself space to breathe calmly — with even more ease and spaciousness. Connect with your inner silence. Bring yourself to just be. Let the thinking slow down. Slow everything down, as if you are gently bringing yourself to rest in silent stillness.

Now, as you settle down in this feeling, embrace this sensation, bring your attention to your heart and sense how it feels.

This is completion. Fulfilment. A sense of being whole, complete and perfect. It is your birthright. Being complete does not depend upon circumstances. Whenever you can allow yourself to simply be, you can access it within. It is the essence of who you are.

“The experience of being yourself is innately satisfying. If who you really are does not give you the experience of health, happiness, love and full self-expression — or ‘aliveness’ — then that is not who you really are. When you experience yourself as yourself, that experience is innately satisfying. The experience of the self as the self is the experience of satisfaction.

Satisfaction is not ‘out there’. It cannot be brought in. You will never get satisfied. It cannot be done. When you want more and different or better, that is gratification, and while that is gratifying, we always want even more or even better. Satisfaction is completion, being complete — what has been called ‘the peace that passeth all understanding’. It is a condition of well-being — a sense of wholeness and of being complete right now — a context of certainty that right now is completely all right as right now and that the next moment will similarly be, fully itself. Not a judgment of good or bad, right or wrong, just what is.”

-Werner Erhard