While there are events in life which are transformative, books, events and thoughts which transform us, we never truly arrive.

Life is a constant state of change.  Each thought we have in each moment, each millisecond, is different, separate and distinct from past and future thoughts, even as they are linked in one unified continuous flow.

While we are alive at least, some would posit even before and beyond, there is always a next thing.  We never arrive. 

Is our spirit changeless?  Some would say our spirits are evolving through this thing we call life.  Thus even spirits are in flux.  Others may have a different view.

What is undeniable is that while alive, we are in flux. 

We never arrive.  We can learn to be happy.   Then be happy.  But, we can always learn to be happier.  More blissful.  More at grace. 

There is no book we read, No class we take,  No epiphany we have, which leads us to arrive.

Those of us who feel we have arrived usually seem after a fashion to be stagnant, regardless of how good our digs or disposition.

Show me someone who is blissful, I’ll show you a student or a teacher.   A person on a path sometimes straight, often with many forks, detours and round-a-bouts.

This is not to say certain classes and books and teachings and learnings are not important to the process of transformation.  Nor to say that transformation cannot come in leaps or bounds as often it does.  It is to say these are some of the paving stones on an endless path of discovery and enlightenment towards deeper and deeper levels of inner peace.

After none of these processes can you truly say you have arrived.

You have always arrived.  You are always here.  You can never be anywhere but here and now.  And, you can never arrive.  You can never get there.  There is always a journey which occurs from here to here.

Yours in journey,

Yucel