“It stares you in the face. No role is so well suited to philosophy as the one you happen to be in right now.”

Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations (Modern Library) (p. 149). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

There are two modes of thought on the path to enlightenment.

The first and most common is that it takes years of work and practice to get there. Meditation retreats, voyages, daily meditations, learning, etc. all to get incremental progress to being better. I usually believe this is so.

The second is that once you see it, its there. Alternately, once you determine to see it, that’s all it takes. Marcus alludes to it in the quote above. J. Krishnamurti speaks of it often. Nisargadatta Maharaj, points us to it. Just be present, it is there, that’s all there is. When I really sit down and think about it, I think this is probably closer to the truth.