An "Idiot's Guide to Self-Realization", (or), How To Overcome Intellectualism.

[Ohr Ein Sof]

It can be very simple if one so chooses.

Someone needs to help me on this one! I do not see how walking the straight and narrow path is "easy".
Sure, we can turn the Will toward our desires to become but, we are not alone on this planet; there are others that provide cruel catalyst.
I guess if one to only say continuously, "this is only but a dream" and repeat that every second on the hour until your backside hits the coffin, it would be nothing but a blissful dream.
You have some esplainin' ta do Lucy....seriously.

I think we could start from Ra's poker game.  If we discuss the parts you find are difficult to manifest?

50.7 Questioner: Thank you. Can you expand on the concept which is this: that it is necessary for an entity to, during incarnation in the physical as we call it, become polarized or interact properly with other entities and why this isn’t possible in between incarnations when he is aware of what he wants to do, but why must he come into an incarnation and lose memory, conscious memory of what he wants to do and then act in a way that he hopes to act? Could you expand on that please?

Ra: I am Ra. Let us give the example of the man who sees all the poker hands. He then knows the game. It is but child’s play to gamble, for it is no risk. The other hands are known. The possibilities are known and the hand will be played correctly but with no interest.

In time/space and in the true-color green density, the hands of all are open to the eye. The thoughts, the feelings, the troubles, all these may be seen. There is no deception and no desire for deception. Thus much may be accomplished in harmony but the mind/body/spirit gains little polarity from this interaction.

Let us re-examine this metaphor and multiply it into the longest poker game you can imagine, a lifetime. The cards are love, dislike, limitation, unhappiness, pleasure, etc. They are dealt and re-dealt and re-dealt continuously. You may, during this incarnation begin — and we stress begin — to know your own cards. You may begin to find the love within you. You may begin to balance your pleasure, your limitations, etc. However, your only indication of other-selves’ cards is to look into the eyes.

You cannot remember your hand, their hands, perhaps even the rules of this game. This game can only be won by those who lose their cards in the melting influence of love; can only be won by those who lay their pleasures, their limitations, their all upon the table face up and say inwardly: “All, all of you players, each other-self, whatever your hand, I love you.” This is the game: to know, to accept, to forgive, to balance, and to open the self in love. This cannot be done without the forgetting, for it would carry no weight in the life of the mind/body/spirit beingness totality.

Beautiful quote. One of my favorites but in no way does this sound "simple" it actually sounds difficult but rewarding. The narrow path is not simple. It takes finesse to play the game. First we begin by knowing the game, then we progress to well,now how do I play? As Ra says, it literally is a poker game stretched over a lifetime. A lot of failures and a lot of successes and a ton of limitation.