Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If the caterpillar thinks about what the butterfly it is to become saying, “And then I shall have wings and antennae”, there will never be a butterfly. The caterpillar must accept its own disappearance in its transformation. When the marvellous butterfly takes wing, nothing of the caterpillar remains.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Emerging From The Dark Night 