Achieving enlightenment is easier if you dont try

Everything achieves Buddhahood of a kind — even the unhappy achieve a paradigm of their misery. You are all like sand or stones in a river. When you are dropt in, some sink straightaway to the bottom, some are borne a short distance are borne, others, the lightest particles, are swept and buffeted farthest. The river’s continual flow offers an onward sweep to all who want: some dance in response, some become silt.

If you have no calling no kind of a spiritual voyage is necessary, but if you’re to have a specific role assigned to you you may need a great deal of friction to smooth your jagged edges into gentle curves before you are ready for the stretch of water where you are to play your part.
Be comforted, your destination is assured however long the journey. This is for your ultimate happiness, for you will never be satisfied with less. So don’t be surprised or upset the water will clear as you near your new home. Do not expect any prominence or glory — only the satisfaction of having fulfilled your destiny and so released your soul from further servitude.
Those who are safe and secure don’t hear voices. They build walls and hedges and ditches against uncertainty. The more they decorate and improve their lives, the more they adorn their tombs. They will hear nothing, they and those like them have agreed to hear nothing. Like incubuses they subvert Established religion with a dead weight of reassuring inertia.

Uncertainty is a spiritual principle you must accept. The result isn’t entropy -as the natural mind supposes- but balance and fluidity. Sometimees you get people with a natural configuration of spiritual power. Often they mistake this for personal power, for the knowledge they have blinds them against the deeper insight and the humility they bring. Such people have difficulty in resisting their 'natural' instincts and use their power for control rather than liberation. How bitterly they regret missing this opportunity to achieve Buddhahood /enlightenment in the afterlife when they no longer have the means to reverse their actions.