The veritable consciousness is not asleep and has no need or desire to awaken, and it is not gratified when mental consciousness, the mind's refraction of it, assumes a more blissful, transparent and embracing quality. Identification is an idea that could only arise in a mind labouring to improve its experience, and such a mind, although it may desire bliss, transparency and breadth cannot desire its own abolition in favour of that which it truly is, before all desire. Desire seems to aim at the end of desire, but always by way of the desirable. What desire there is is always a component of the play of desire, of the world, in other words, and its history with all its obstacles, strategies and catastrophes. There is no point in the attempt to align the mind with this truth, since it can't be done, but there is no point in not trying to do so either. To work in this way is to establish and nurture an interest in what is intrinsically or naturally the least interesting thing possible, not the world but the silence behind or prior to the world. The world of mind is head over heels in love with objectivity, what is not and can never be objective is to it maddeningly dull, is what would forestall its greatest love, its road to accomplishment. You can pursue whatever you can imagine yourself as attaining, but cannot imagine yourself awakened. If you think you can then you are looking in the wrong direction.