A better one

Awakenings does not help one to live a better life in the world. In fact, it could possibly make it harder. When Richard Rose was asked if life became easier after enlightenment he said no but it got funnier. Many people assume that awakening will be the end-all to their problems and that life from then on out will be a continuous joyride. That may or may not be actually true. Therefore, it's good to know exactly what you are after so that you can be clear it's what you are actually wanting! In the end, awakening happens or not and enlightenment comes as a gift. Every single person who has ever awakened will say the same thing. It happened on it's own, in spite of whatever someone was doing and often after a person had given up and no longer cared one way or another about ever finding anything.