As human being, we are a part of whole nature and existence. We posses all the qualities of nature whether we realize it or not.We are born with all these natural qualities. As we grow up and socialize layers and layers of conditionng get imposed upon us. We slowly lose our trueself and become a different person created by conditioning.
But our natural trueself is like a mirror and conditionning is like layers of dust. The mirror has not to be achived,the mirror is already there or rather, here. The mirror is not lost , it is only hidden behind the layers of dust. We can realize that through meditation.
We do not have to follow a path to reach our true nature because we connot leave our trueself, we cannot go anywhere else. Most of the time we ignore it. We do not even listen to ourself. Our mind and senses always looks outside and we are running endlessly to satisfy it. We have so many things to achieve and it is multiplying. Sometimes we achieve our big goal with our hard effort.We feel happy and satisfied for a while but doesn't last long. We still feel something missing. That is the connection to our deeper self our inner voice. Meditation is a way of connection to our true existence.