Look

Look.

Maybe the universe isn’t waiting for you to transform. It’s not desperate for you to change into your better self. God or the Great Spirit, or the Divine, or the Dao, or whatever you like, it doesn’t need your help.

It’s not your responsibility to grow. Go ahead, don’t grow. Don’t evolve. Don’t discover anything inside yourself. Or do. Entertain for a moment the possibility that it makes no difference. You don’t have to meditate or be mindful or compassionate. If you did these things you might find it nice, but there is no Cosmic Imperative demanding you aspire to your highest form. There’s no highest form, anyway.

Everything, including you, is already real. There is no Authentic Self hidden within your heart, no desperate soul locked up in spiritual chains. Consider for a moment that there’s nothing inside you waiting to bloom; you are already here; you are already full. You don’t have to discover a new perspective. You don’t have to align your chakras. You don’t have to illuminate your community with inspirational well-being and deep listening. You don’t have to read the sacred texts. You don’t have to Let Go or Just Breathe or Live Your Best Life. You don’t have to become anything at all.

If you want to take a journey of transformation, fantastic. If you enjoy the process then by all means, knock yourself out. Do what flows through you. If you’re drawn to the esoteric, the spiritual, or the philosophically fringe, go to it. But there are no stakes. Do you see? No one is keeping score in a higher realm. There is no ladder you must ascend, unless you like the climb. But listen, even if you do climb, you don’t go anywhere. It’s all here already. Everything. Everywhere. Whatever it is, you’re already doing it.

If you want to wake up, or see it differently, or shift your perspective, go for it.

Just remember, perhaps, we are always already whole. Always already complete.

Always already here.