Stop Wishing It Were Easy: Why Transformation is Your Most Difficult Time

We are conditioned to believe that spiritual growth should feel pleasant, peaceful, and consistently beautiful. If you think the true path is a beautiful journey, you have not understood anything yet.

The reality is that the most difficult time for you to bear is the time when you are being transformed.

Transformation is inherently disruptive. It means the old structures of the ego are breaking down, and that process is painful, confusing, and often ugly. Do not hate those times; embrace them. They are the necessary proof that you are shedding your former self.

Choosing the Fire Over the Dream

If your only desire is to remain beautiful, comfortable, and undisturbed, then you can remain asleep forever in the pleasant dream of your current life.

But if you genuinely want to wake up and be transformed, you have to summon the courage to bear your true, unvarnished nature and walk through it. This requires immense patience and intelligence.

Until the moment of your liberation comes, you are walking through a dream that feels terrifyingly real.

Nothing Is Real—Not Even Your Mood

This dream state gives rise to intense emotions and shifting mental states. But here is the critical insight: Whatever mood you are in at this time, none of it is real.

You cannot escape it, and you cannot truly join it. You can only see its illusion.

This realization is your spiritual key. Your work is not to fight or fix the dream; your work is to wake up from it.

The Ultimate Surrender

Do not go to change anything. Stop trying to control the uncontrollable. Instead, let nature take you and watch everything with mindfulness. The more difficult the terrain, the more beautiful the destination will feel.

Hold onto this certainty: The difficult journey is the beautiful destination.

In the end, you will realize the profound truth: the journey and the destination are the same moment.The very feeling that you are on a path—that there is a “before” and an “after”—is the final illusion you must shed.

Freedom is not the arrival; it is the realization that you have always been here.