“You don’t need to become anything. You only need to stop pretending what you are not.” – Robert Adams
In the Eternal Act of Being, there is no distance between who you are and what you seek. Yet the mind, driven by avidyā—ignorance of the Self—projects an endless journey of becoming. It imagines enlightenment as a destination —a future state to be earned.
But all effort of “becoming” implies that what you are now is incomplete. This is the greatest illusion — the belief that the Self is fragmented and that the divine, wholly (holy) state is something to achieve.
The Wholeness already present is not attained — it is remembered in presence. Consciousness never separates from its Source, and seeking is just another trap of the matrix.
The Eternal Act is not about self-improvement; it is about recognition. When the masks of identity, spiritual striving, and judgment of self and others who are “not on the path” fall away, what remains is Being, Consciousness, Bliss — the trinity of your essence.
The seeker’s trap is subtle: in trying to awaken, one creates a new persona — “the awakened one.” But this is only the ego in sacred clothing. It still says, “I must do more, purify more, meditate longer,” forgetting that the very I it serves is the illusion itself.
Even spiritual identity becomes another veil between awareness and itself.
True practice begins when effort dissolves into surrender where life moves through you, as you.
When pretending stops, the real is revealed — effortlessly. Presence no longer needs to maintain an image or a goal. It rests in stillness, luminous and self-knowing.
This is the Eternal Act — movement of the Infinite through the finite, the completion of the false search, and the recognition that you have never left Home.