Why me?

"'Why me?' you say, as if some enemy had picked you out for special treatment. No, don’t you see?, you have a unique invitation to step above the clouds. Certainty cannot be experienced in the physical world. Certainty is always a metaphysical experience.
"Could it be simple? No, for then it would be accomplished by the unawakened, and so the whole purpose of personal growth would be lost. You are coming to the light — slowly, at whatever pace you can manage — singly, in small uncertain groups, in joyful cheering throngs, in multitudes more than eye can number — but surely as the embraces of homecoming.
"Be gentle, be true, be steadfast. In the natural world there are techniques you can apply to rouse enthusiasm, even hysteria, but in the spiritual world you control the pace by not controling the pace.
"Have the confidence that you are now exactly where its right for you. Are you surrounded by horror? Push out, touch the pasteboard illusion that imprisons you, break free of it once and for all — you easily can if you alter your mind-set. Know that you’re as immortal as the rocks that stride to the cliff edge beneath a fringe of hesitant turf, you are stronger than steel, more enduring than diamond. You are at one with the universe, already fulfilling your destiny. Beside you is an invisible ski-lift in perpetual motion, you have only to grasp it to be borne aloft. But be calm, or in your anxiety you may clutch at the air and topple over.
"Balance, health, peace, maturity. These are all qualities you possess — allow yourself to access them. And when difficulties emerge see yourself as perfectly separate, deal with the difficulties knowing that whatever the outcome it can't affect your self-worth.
"Perhaps you’re about to be convicted of a crime? That path has been necessary for you, so don’t reproach yourself. You now have valuable insights to offer others — and what a powerful base-line of self-knowledge you have acquired. Spiritually your life is of infinite worth — ignore what they’re saying about you — inside you know there’s a crazy diamond waiting to be freed from its igneous coating — your actions arose from some bizarre reasoning that what you did was the right way to get at it. Now you know differently. From the dung of shame and humiliation have grown the most fragrant gardens, whose elegant sweetness have refreshed and inspired all who sought peace in their shade.
"Release yourself to grow straight and tall, don’t settle for the stunted twisted bush your native soil made you. Put down roots deep beneath the dry and dusty surface. Drink from the sky within you."