The thing to see is that it’s not necessary to get ourselves into any particular state because every apparent state is it. Reality remains reality, regardless of how it may be appearing. If we likened life to a motion picture, it's not like some parts of the picture are more the picture than other parts, right? It's all made of the same indescribable “light,” projecting everything that is seen, everything that is heard, everything that is felt and perceived.

But what I'm inviting you to consider is the possibility that you don't have to reshape the moment into anything for the moment is already perfectly reality, just as it is. Each momentary perception is perfectly free, perfectly at ease, perfectly open, without it having to be transformed or modified in any way whatsoever.

That has a very different feel, doesn’t it? It’s the feeling of already being home because there is only home. We’ve never actually been cast out of the garden. Ever.

John Astin