I, as a fallible human being, can never attain enlightenment. This sentence should make it abundantly clear about the ability of human beings to pretend to something they can never be.

Oh, they can write reams of interesting material on the subject. I believe these are called “pointers.” This word has fallen into disuse by the non-dual community. Yes, dear readers, we can only be fingers pointing, but there is no anointing.

If you can explain it, you can’t attain it!

Zen Buddhism is good at finger-pointing, perhaps the best.

But listen to the words of Jesus: “I of mine own self can do nothing.”

So Vicki sits at her keyboard pointing until the letters fade out on it. She still doesn’t get it.

Her life is a mixture of sleep and awakening. The disciples had a similar problem. We are born into this world as human beings and we are seldom able to rise above our humanhood.

Joel Goldsmith wrote a lot about making contact with God; he urged people to sit in silence until they felt some kind of true peace come over them. But he said we have to keep doing this because we fall sleep all day long.

There are no real guarantees about anything on the spiritual level, but we must keep trying to honor the inner Self.

Few truly want to awaken and even fewer want to confess their inability to stay awake long enough to achieve anything remotely resembling enlightenment.

Words are not the thing. The thing is the thing.

Vicki Woodyard