The spiritual journey

You start the spiritual journey with the grasping and wanting of something, a thing that will dissolve all your problems, a state that will give you never ending happiness, a desire for a heaven free from sorrow and pain. You start with the desire, nothing wrong with that, but... On the journey something happens in the background, unseen. The traveler start to disappear, and there comes a point when he is totally lost and still nothing has changed. He has changed, not the existence, life. The life has always been the same, and now he is the life itself. The illusion was that he was separate from life...there is no boundaries anymore...the sky was always there behind the thick clouds.

Roshi