If you think you’ve advanced in your awareness beyond others, you’ve lost awareness, because you’ve lost humility.

Regarding your progress, the only conclusion you can come to is not to conclude at all.

You cannot keep track of your progress or estimate your time of arrival. There is no arriving. The news which disconcerts you is that you never get there. There is neither such thing as entering heaven, nor as attaining nirvana. For those who seek them shall not find. Where would you draw the gates of heaven? Over what magic line is enlightenment attained, where it did not exist before? Stop looking for that which never was lost, and so need not be found.

When you stop looking, you’ve found it. When you stop trying to get there, you’re there. When you forget that you even are, you discover That which lives its life through you, and you become aware it is This which you really are.  When you cease being aware of awareness, you are aware. When you cease trying to become, you become what you already are.

© 2022 by Michael C. Just

Mike’s novel, The Dirt: The Journey of a Mystic Cowboy, is available in softcover or eBook formats through Amazon.

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Mike’s other titles, including The Crippy, The Mind Altar, and Canyon Calls, are available through this website or through Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B002

Four of his short stories have recently been published online:

Lies, Ltd. has been published by The Mystery Tribune @ Lies, Ltd.: Literary Short Fiction by Michael C. Just (mysterytribune.com)

The Obligate Carnivore has been published by the Scarlet Leaf Review @ Category: MICHAEL JUST – SCARLET LEAF REVIEW

I See You, Too has been published by the 96th of October @ I See You, Too – 96th of October

Offload, a short story about a man who can heal any disease, is now live and can be read at The Worlds Within at Offload – The Worlds Within