Things

Do you know that in this reality, you don’t really need anything? Neither clothing nor shoes from the latest collection, nor a house in a particular neighborhood, nor a car to go to work in, nor the latest book by your favorite author.
You don’t need any of these, but you want them. You want to see these things as yours, to touch them, feel them, smell them, consider them your own. In doing so, you consider yourselves to be more alive; you live life looking forward to each new thing you’ll receive or buy, knowing in advance that your joy will be short-lived.
If you were to close your eyes and go within completely, you’d understand your existence in this reality, and you’d no longer need a single book, nor a single letter; you’d remember all that is; you’d know everything.
And with that knowledge, you’d no longer need a single material thing, you would no longer want anything.
And that’s why you had to forget everything that you are—in order to understand, through your awakening, the world in which you currently live. That means that you can, but don’t need to, possess things; you can but don’t need to want them. It’s your choice. But if you’ve decided that you want things, don’t grow attached to them.
They’re not you, they’re not part of you, you exist above everything. And you can’t even take them with you when you leave this Planet one day.
It’s like craving ice cream and then suffering because you don’t have it anymore after eating it. You don’t grow attached to ice-cream, it’s not part of you, it’s only here temporarily because you wanted it to be.
That’s how it should be with absolutely everything in your life. Have it, but don’t grow attached to it. That way, you won’t suffer if you lose it, and it will be easier to open your path to new things.
This is all to do with transience because in this reality, everything around you is transient, everything but you—you’re eternal.