*image by Ben Harubin

A certain satisfaction is in seeing life's sameness.

In a land where all are kin and of common kind, what is to be gained by
thinking of them as individually unrelated and unique?
Yet so do the words men mentally speak to themselves proceed -- spreading
widely needless confusion and controversy.

You may still look for assistance and salvation -- but it's still with you
-- still in your hands -- still in your power -- still up to you.

And a man said, "It seems to me that much of what this is all about still
remains too much a matter of 'yets' and 'neverthelesses' -- and even when
not that, an overindulgence is silence and motionlessness."
...Ah, sir, but still-l-l-l.

Only those with too few experiences of temporary freedom believe they're involved
in something that's somehow "supernatural"; those who finally realize what this is
actually all about couldn't feel anymore submerged in that which is common, everyday and natural if they tried.

More Scenes From That Certain Metaphorical Train Trip:
When you first leave Paris you think yourself bound for a mystical Shangri-la; later, the
seasoned traveler begins to conceive of the destination as being the more literal city of Istanbul.
The actual end of the journey however turns out to be sorta like Paris, with an enormous
photograph of Istanbul rather haphazardly laid over it.

It is easy enough to scoff at the specific changes others may claim
t hat enlightenment will bring,
but you are equally foolish if you believe
that it will bring any.