You can only spend so much time rearranging your life, trying to make it fit your idea of “happy” or “ideal” – the moment you let go of the thread you’ve been weaving, life unravels everything, and if you want to wake up, you’d be a fool to stop the process.

That unraveling and destruction is life’s way of regaining control you only thought you had – life gives you some room to play with as long as you want to remain in the illusory world. The difficulty is that people stop the ride they’re on and get on another one, and think they’ve woken up.

All rides are just rides. They’re all illusory.

Once you decide to leave the amusement park, things change.

You can wake up within the dream state and think you’re “awake” but if you’re still focused on rearranging your life to match your personal desires/will, you’re just awake within the dream – not FROM the dream. You’re sleepwalking.

You’d be surprised what your body/vehicle will guide you to do when you let go of arranging your world artificially according to what you think you want or how life should be… your life might take a whole new and unexpected direction…

But letting go of trying to make life more pleasant, allowing destruction, pain, and discord, well, that’s the Universe’s best kept secret. You’d never know it from the outside.

From the outside it sounds like madness. It’s not even a matter of “what you resist persists” therefore you should allow painful experiences in order to get them to go away – nope… it’s more like… there’s a certain grace that comes from acknowledging What Is. And not trying to change it or resist it in any way. To just BE with it. Be with reality for once in your life rather than running away… it’s magical.