We realize that the heaven everyone is seeking is where we have always been. - Adyashanti

"When you have let go of all conditions - when you have let go of how you want your own awakening to be and what you want the journey to be like - you have let go of your illusion of control.  In fact, we have to be willing to lose our whole world.  That may sound romantic when you first hear it - "Oh yes, let me sign up! I'm willing to lose my whole world." But when your whole world starts to crumble, and you start to emerge from unimaginably deep states of denial, it is something altogether different.  It is something altogether more real and gritty.  It's something that some people sign up for and some people don't.  This isn't a journey about becoming something.  This is about unbecoming who we are not, about undeceiving ourselves.  In the end, it's ironic.  We don't end up anywhere other than where we have always been, except that we perceive where we have always been completely differently.  We realize that the heaven everyone is seeking is where we have always been. " -- The End of Your World, by Adyashanti