You hear the saints laughing; "there is no journey, you are making it all up..." - And that is true, seen from Silence, but very unusable on your way of reaching the state of living surrendered.

Enlightenment is not something you stumble upon on your way to something else (in the pursuit of happiness, love or any kind of wealth). It is the result of demanding nothing but the Truth. Enlightenment cannot be handed over the counter at some Satsang. Whoever claims that just doesn't know! The beliefs rooted in your body, will still lead your course of actions, no matter how many altered states of consciousness you enter, by meeting enlightened beings! You are still left with your old life, once the (per)fumes of Light from the other One has vaporised.

Truth realization calls for hard work - doing your best on- and never accepting defeat in reaching the complete honesty of your own situation. Hard work of coming to realize, that you just don't know! From there you can start learning - with your being. Start living with your Life.

To Realize Truth and become free, it is demanded from you to investigate every part of your self - all the way down to the most subtle beliefs behind every movement of your body. But by starting from the beginning and with the very obvious - how you live your life - pealing away the layers of illusion from there - demanding Truth to be the case!

As your beliefs are met in pure honesty, and in combination with the demand of living Truth, you start burning away the ignorance in your cells, with the flame of Life. Which makes the Flame grow. This is integration. It is when and how the body comes to be the meetingplace between heaven and earth.

Being and seeing inside of you, with an awakened is helpful. It gives you the possibility to confront yourself even deeper and more honestly, than you could on your own. It saves time - but still you can only address the assumptions underlying the subjects, at which you are failing to master your life at this instant. How can you expect to learn how to master your higher levels of being if not even mastering yourself on ground!? It doesnt work to look into spiritual matters to escape the roughness of failing on the more obvious levels of living!

"It is all mind", they say, but yet not within your scope of reason or change.

It only takes one look in full honesty - true! But you grow stronger as you move closer to the flame - which means on a bodily level more and more able to stay Real and meet your Self deeper (trust me if you move your body into the flame all at once, you will burn it up - its not possible - integration takes time!).

But you have to begin at the beginning. By looking at your beliefs on the most obvious levels.

And from here just never give up!

Start digging, my friend. And the Truth will set you free.