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The Cosmic Joke and the End of the Journey

In the end, the greatest secret of awakening is that it was never about becoming someone or achieving something. There was no person to awaken because awakening is the realization that there never was a separate person in the first place. Life is a playful manifestation of consciousness, endlessly pretending to be lost so it can enjoy the game of finding itself again and again.

This realization is profoundly liberating—a return to what has always been present. The only thing that remains is this effortless, luminous awareness, recognizing itself through everything and everyone. Welcome home, for you have never actually left.