Paradise

 The Paradise of the spiritual garden, the place where your best self feeds and grows cannot be reached by any journey of steps.  It is a journey made by yearnings.  You yearn to lose this self that has been cobbled together in response to a cultural value system devoid of truth.  You yearn for the truth of yourself.  You lessen your efforts to conform, to be popular, to have more material things.  But you cannot simply yearn.  You need to strip yourself of the old clothes of the ego.  Naked before God, as when you came into this world, you are led, in trust, hope and daily discipline, into the world of spirit, the world of Truth.  You discover yourself.  And you are clothed anew.