The majority of the people who walk the surface of this planet are out of their minds. This is not to put myself above the rest of us; I say this not to differentiate myself from my brothers and sisters. But the more I try to find enlightenment - gnosis - my higher self - the more I come up against the cold hard fact that most of the people who walk among us are out of their skulls, batguano insane, nuts.
This makes it extremely difficult to attain enlightenment. One must cultivate the will to rise to levels to which most people do not aspire. Levels to which most people could not be bothered to even contemplate. This inherently puts The Aspirant at odds with the sleeping masses. The One must rise above while loving all else as his self. Hence the notion of the Bodhisattva - the one who forgoes the kingdom of heaven to stay behind and enlighten the masses. Because in reality every soul that inhabits this reality is an extension of ourselves. Even scientifically, break reality down to its smallest components and ask the question, "where do I end and my surroundings begin?" We are parts of a vast vibrating energy field where frequencies of energy bubble up into matter and form the particles that create experiential reality. We are all made of the same stuff, stemming from the same source. We are one - manifestations of one divine light.
For as Sprinsteen said, "Remember in the end, nobody wins unless everybody wins."
Because in REALITY - the realm of the truly real - we are all enlightened. Somewhere outside of spacetime we have all merged with the one.
But we're not there until we're all there.
But paradoxically we're all there. Here. Now.
And we can all access this here and now when we experience a timeless feeling of joy. Sometimes it's ephemeral, but when we step out of the riverflow of linear time and experience the loving joy of the here and now we experience the eternal Grace of God. We reunite with The One.
