“We may be able to see the wonders around us and yet still doubt that we ourselves are a wonder too. We feel inadequate. We’re yearning for something else, something more. We are like a saucepan wandering around looking for a lid. We lack confidence in ourselves and in our capacity to be peaceful, compassionate, and awakened. We feel overwhelmed by our difficulties. And sowe continue to go about our daily life feeling that we lack something. We’ve got to ask ourselves, “What am I lacking? What am I looking for?”
To practice aimlessness is to identify what it is you’re looking for, waiting for, or running after, and let it go. By removing these objects of seeking that are pulling you away from the here and now, you will discover that everything you want is already right here in the present moment. You don’t need to “be someone” or do something in order to be happy and free. If you ask a flower blooming on the mountainside, or a tree standing majestically in the forest, “What are you looking for?,” how would they reply? If you have some mindfulness and concentration, you will hear their answer in your heart”
-Thich Nhat Hanh