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I must have the perfect job, I must go to an Ivy League school, and I must have the perfect children who then too should do perfect things. All my life I wast told to search outside of myself and become someone great. Does this sound familiar? Have you felt this way too? Well, if one has the perfect outer world successes, then, as a result one must be 'perfect' and successful, right? This way we will have arrived and then of course, the worrying that is happening inside will drop because all of our achievements in the material world will fulfill us. But is this the truth? Has the worrying stopped after acquiring these objects and labels? Or is it that the more that we run after these goals that we create more worrying because the truth is there is much more to worry about?

If we drop the need to identify with these labels then who are we? Well, we must go inside to find that out. Instead of running outside for the solutions we can turn in. Just who is it that is desiring? Who is it that is craving? Who is it that is 'keeping up with the Jones?' You will see that in asking these questions a liberation of sorts will come. A moment of quiet. A moment of space will descend on that chattering mind. Probe into that space. Fall in love with that space. Befriend that space, that gap in between thoughts.

It's like when you see a beautiful landscape like Niagara Falls or the Grand Canyon or the vast Mojave desert. There is this moment, a gap, before you even utter a word like "Wow!" or "It's beautiful" that gap liberates you from the worry or chattering mind. A fleeting moment of stillness or silence. It is this moment that we call meditation. And the beautiful thing is that everyone has been graced with these moments. In these moments truth descends upon us. In these moments our great artists create and our great scientists see the formula. And the same happens when you ask yourself the question "who is it that is wanting?" Make that you meditation. Playfully toss that question around throughout the day.

There is no answer. When the questions die you live. Start living. Drop the chattering mind and simply stop worrying about your worries.