Enlightenment, Love and Liberation, One Breath at a Time Absolute Readiness Let's speak very frankly and earnestly. Being awake is not some kind of philosophical or spiritual hobby or therapeutic technique. We have to be serious, and we have to be ruthlessly honest with ourselves about everything.
Cynicism is a lie.
Playing the victim is a lie. Deceiving ourselves is not just ignorant. It is cruel. Trying to make life conform to our fantasies and ideas about it is absolutely and utterly futile. None of them can be made to last.