Remember that you are walking a path of your own making. Perhaps it is a path often treaded, that is, with the inspirations of past travelers fresh in your mind, coming to you when you need them the most. Perhaps it is a path lightly taken, mysterious, confusing, lonely, and without helping hands to guide you along. But most importantly, never forget that all paths are one in the same: it doesn’t matter what you do or what you don’t do. Without all of this doing, there wouldn’t be any way for us to define non-doing. Without any of this non-doing, there wouldn’t be any way for us to define doing. Who is to tell you that you are doing all of this life business right? And who wrong? Certainly not me. Maybe you chase after money or romance, maybe fame or material comfort, or maybe you don’t do any chasing at all. Perhaps you buy into the social game of antiquity, where beings struggle against one another in a competition of life, in a big contest of one-upmanship so that you can get as much stuff as you can before fading away from this reality. There’s nothing wrong with this. Perhaps you never liked these ideas and preferred to live a life of spiritual poverty, in giving up all humanly desires and surrendering your very identity and innermost idea of “self” to the unknown. Perhaps you are John Smith, cashier at a shop, manager of a hotel, security guard of a casino, international banker, or police detective. Perhaps you have given all of that up in pursuit of something else, something more meaningful to you, creative, and ambitious to your personal values, beliefs, and ideas. Perhaps you have spent the better part of your life reading books and studying in order to gain some form of knowledge and intelligence, or maybe you have spent the better part of your life working in order to save enough money to ensure the security of your future, or maybe, you have spent the better part of your life having rich experiences with others, enjoying your time on this planet by sharing laughter and love with your fellow beings. In any case, it is your life to live, your decisions to make. Nobody else gets to tell you otherwise.

Maybe you don’t feel special as you once did as a child. You’re afraid of death. The imaginative years of your life escaped you in adolescence, so now you are painfully serious; all business. Whether it be your books and studies, your bills and figures, your status and titles, your likes and dislikes, your hates and loves, others versus yourself, you cling to these mental abstractions, these fabrications created by your own mind in order to make sense of things on the outside of your skin and to develop a social mask to be worn in the presence of others. Take it off. It isn’t really you. It never was and it never will be. You’d be surprised how it feels to breathe for once.

When you’re feeling lost, remember who you are. We come from all walks of life, seven billion of us on this planet alone, and we all share the same stuff which animates our corpses into this thing we call life. When it feels impossible to move on, too painful to dig yourself out of a hole, or when the walls of your temple come crashing down in a seemingly random instant without warning, you must remember that you are you. You are that speck of whatever which animates all of the cosmos from the deepest levels of subatomic and waveform reality all the way to the gaseous nebulae in deep space. The underlying principle of this existence is that you who is reading this, is not simply an organism born into an environment, but rather a relationship of organism-to-environment, born out of itself just as a fractal in nature. All conflicting ideas of dualism and polarity are just that; ideas. Never forget you who really are at the core, underneath all of the layers of the onion. We feel disconnected, cut off; and alone when we are felt to be separate from the rest of this reality, and it’s quite easy to forget that you are connected with it on many levels via electromagnetic fields outside of the spectrum of visible light which we can ocularly perceive at this current time. Through the human’s systems of energy as described in religious tradition of antiquity, we are the universe looking at itself, perceiving itself subjectively.

And so, whether you are as a pebble floating down a creek, empty in mind, going with the flow completely clear-headed, or as a teacher passing knowledge to new generations, an artist turning his inner experience into physicality, a lecturer commenting on intellectual problems with society, a novelist jotting down the next big story, a scholar compiling information to present in a new and unique fashion, or a psychoanalyst helping individuals to integrate themselves to comfortably living life as a human, we are all the same. All of our functions and dysfunctions, whether we are on a path of any sort or not, work together collectively to paint a picture of a world in which there are many things happening all at once, implying the existence and meaning of one another. A world in which all traditions, archaic and modern alike, exist together. Perhaps, one day, it will truly be in peace. But until then, decide for yourself what works. If you would prefer to live a life of solitude, away from the social games of the world, then by all means do so. There is no one stopping you other than yourself. If you have a serious problem with the current system which runs the world, do something about it; leave something behind which will spark minds on an individual level to help usher in and support a future mass awakening of humanity. But whatever you do, do it for yourself, and do it for the betterment of our species. Setting an example is the most important aspect in changing others. So let’s find our way!