You cannot be lost, because you are walking within the kingdom. It’s your own tailored universe.
It’s like saying, that you’re lost while walking in your own garden.
The illusion, is that you’re far from home and that you can get back. In reality, you’re already home, and your personal illusion is telling you: “Hey why don’t you do xyz, and go down this shady ally in order to fix yourself or cope with how you feel right now… Oh and while you’re at it, why don’t you pick up some sugary substance, do some illicit substance and get hooked on something that will pull you righhht out of the kingdom.” (wink wink – alluring energy.)
The purpose is to pull you out of the kingdom. – Stay in the kingdom.
โBefore enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.โ
– Zen Proverb
You see, while you’re trying to be elsewhere, you need to be here.
Your elsewhere is equivalent to the enlightenment. And while you want to arrive – and you will arrive – you forsake what is in front of you, wanting something better off in the distance.
But, you’ll find, that the all glorious desire you want – that is off in the distance – is actually, from where you’re standing right now, often a mirage.
Let me explain; the point of arrival you wish to arrive at cannot be appreciated if you don’t spend your present moment fortifying the current foundations right here and now. Your present circumstance is the foundation you build for later, so that you can – when you arrive at your desired destination – fully enjoy your point of arrival.
Every shortcut you take right now, adds up, and when you arrive at your point of arrival, every brick (which you lay every day) is add up, contributes to the Hight at which you’re able to perceive your point of arrival.
No brick today, means you get to go to your point of arrival, but your experience of that moment will be empty, or lacking something. Because you will have taken shortcuts along the way.
Your shortcut is a sacrifice from your moment of arrival.
The shortcuts you take are withdrawals you make from your moment of arrival.
In other words, every shortcut you take right now, is a subtraction to the outcome you desire to arrive at. Every Rep you don’t do right now, equals every rep you won’t have done when you arrive.
— Your struggle and pain are the challenge for you to lead through.
If you don’t lead through these moments, you miss the opportunity to become a leader for others, therefore, you will miss out on the opportunity to help yourself.
The challenge and struggle that you’re going through is proportionate to the struggle you’re needing to overcome, and therefore, your strength lies in your weakness and pain, because if you didn’t have this struggle, you wouldn’t have anything to overcome.
You wouldn’t be the right leader for others who’re going through the struggle you’re going through if you weren’t going through the struggle yourself.
No one wants someone who preaches. People want actual struggles. Real time. That’s why they like reality TV, people want to know you’re struggle, they want to see how you’d cope during your struggle.