Comfort versus awareness, and participating in the movement rather than only observing

Frederic says he is happier than he used to be but still likes comfort very much, and sometimes enjoys what he is experiencing so much that he does not feel like changing it, while judging that he probably should.

The Wonders say there is nothing wrong with comfort provided he does not substitute comfort for awareness - it was awareness that led him to comfort, not comfort that led him to awareness - and reject the framing that this is about always wanting to improve.

Instead they describe a journey from birth to death and ask what he will do with it: he can sit on a mountaintop, a log or a stone and watch life fast-forward past him, concluding he had a great life in which he did nothing but saw everything; or he can jump off the rock and walk, including himself in the drama around him.

Some people love drama so much that they spend their whole lives caught in one small aspect of life.

What the Wonders propose is a third way: to observe everything going on, and when he chooses, to enter an experience, live it, and return with awarenesses he could not have gained either by watching it pass or by losing himself in the drama.

Saying 'I'm comfortable and I don't want to change' is itself a form of fear, and worth examining, because even sitting motionless on a mountaintop everything inside him would change - he cannot hold the universe as a fixed point, so he must participate in the movement, and how he participates is up to him: to experience one thing at will through free choice, step back, and experience another.

They warn that this brings up psychologies, belief structures and awareness of his own stress, and tell him that consciously or not he will spend the next year exploring the levels and layers of stress in his life - a choice he has already made - so he may as well do it with conscious awareness.