After these chats, I realized again how much I love the word already because it describes the essence of reality, of what IS. Truth, clarity, fulfillment, love, peace, information, innovation, solutions, insights, etc—these things are already right here. The word ‘already’ helps to cut the legs out from under the doer, the seeker, the achiever—i.e. the various separate selves—from heading out to get something, do something.

For a chronic doer like me, this realization is an immense relief.

The rule of ‘already’ goes for every little thing. We want a hot dog and a beer. Or a salad and a sunbath. The desire itself is already true by the time we notice it. It occurs TO us—popping into awareness, out of the moment. It just… IS. And then, right in the moment we want a hot dog, we remember the place down the street that has the best Chicago-style dogs . The hot dog place was already there. The memory was already there, the impulse was already there. We may even already be walking in that direction. 

What occurs is an increased awareness of what is already the case.