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No, it’s absolutely not worth it.

So if something drew you to the ‘path to enlightenment,’ now that you know it’s not worth it…try to get off it!

You can’t. Even if you know you’ll never reach it. Because it wasn’t “you” who put yourself on that path, and it was never going to be “you” who ‘reached enlightenment.’

Enlightenment wakes up to Itself, when It wants to, through a seemingly-separate “you.” “You” are not doing any of it. “You” are not even part of the equation. This false “you” that makes judgments about whether or not something is ‘worth it,’ that ‘decides,’ of it’s own volition, whether or not to embark upon the ‘path to enlightenment,’ does not exist, it’s illusion, a phantom.

Life Itself is just happening, just unfolding. Sometimes ‘enlightenment’ happens. And You, the true You, is just Life Itself, spontaneous flow.

So just live, enjoy your Self. Think you are ‘enlightened,’ or think you’re not. Think “you” chose to walk this or that path, or that “you” are choosing to step off it when you realize you would never ‘attain’ your ‘goal,’ both of which are false words. It doesn’t matter.

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