"Each person has a great sense of uniqueness about them. You never know when your breakthrough is going to occur, anyway.You may think that you can analyze it and say: " Oh yeah, I was from a pretty bad household and there was alcoholism and there was this and there was that, and there was this form of abuse and therefore I'm taking on all of this weight, all of this burden, and of course my sadhana is going to take longer than the person next door....But you have no right to assume that. You can't assume anything, except your own fervor of practice. That's enough, that's enough to wrap yourself in. Don't worry about how long it's going to take to become enlightened. It's not for you anyway. Enlightenment is not for an individual; it's not for the person, or the persona. it's for Consciousness ttself. And when Consciousness itself really becomes inebriated on the experience of awakening, it vanishes into thin air - because it's not existent in the way that experience is existent or matter is existent. It's elusive, subtle, intangible. It's beyond the functioning of the intellect. An so each person has a great journey to travel...a journey that will not be replicated by anyone else. So when you become enlightened, it's not the Buddha becoming Enlightened again. It's not Krishna remembering his divinity again; it's a whole new expression of that Reality. You'll see, you have to go beyond all conditioning, even the conditioning of Spiritual traditions. Even the conditioning of your best friend who's Awakened. You can't hold on to anything with certainty. You can, but it's illusory."