Man's Search For Subterranean Joy

You tell yourself, I am not the spiritual person I want to be and I want to become that in the future. It is concepts of effort and achievement I oppose. I want you to recognize that achievement of a subterranean joy is contrary to its plain meaning. It is there or it is not. It is waiting for you to notice it or it is not. If such a thing is indeed inside of you it is not far away. If you are handed a gift wrapped in colored paper with a bow on it do you have to go to a special school to learn how you can possibly find what that gift happens to be?

Personally, I do not trust a story about a perfect God who makes people who arrive in need of a book and a teacher with credentials and membership in a group who build temples of bricks or stone. It makes more sense to me to figure the teachers, the books, and the temples have driven innocent children mad enough to require institutionalization in places where they can be dressed, fed, and watched.

If you must strive to overcome something it will be better for you to pay attention to what you want to stop doing. Try to make the changes you truly want in your life. Sing the blues when you fail. Someone might hear your song, listen, and ask you a simple question.

When you have a thing and do not know you have it, stop searching, you will find. I mean, of course, really stop searching. Giving up any projection of a future time when you will have it, be here now. What you will want to do then may surprise you.