Walking paths desolate
Many a times the heart loses itself
Distant imaginary worlds remove one from what is nearer than near;
An easy forgetting of what is here and what is  true
And suddenly, at the gentle touch of love comes a fierce rising
Of the sleeping heart
And the once glassy eyes now cry tears of previously restrained joy
Alive now alive always
To what is here and what is true of it 
Knowing that it will stay.  
Knowing that it has always been here.
“Before enlightenment, mountains are mountains and waters are waters;
after a first glimpse into the truth, mountains are no longer
mountains and waters are no longer waters;
after enlightenment, mountains are once again mountains and waters once again waters.”
— Zen saying

First you see duality
Then you see non-duality
Then finally you look at and see duality with the depth and clarity of non-duality which is to say not two-not one and not not two not not one either. Just as it is. Free of projection. Free of/less and less ntainted by “me”a.k.a. free of "as *I* want to see".

saṃsāra is saṃsāra. nirvāṇa is nirvāṇa. saṃsāra is not nirvāṇa. nirvāṇa is not saṃsāra.
saṃsāra is not necessarily saṃsāra, nirvana is not necessarily nirvāṇa.
saṃsāra is nirvāṇa, nirvāṇa is saṃsāra, but also saṃsāra is saṃsāra, nirvāṇa is nirvāṇa.

Going through is going out. Trying to go out is going in (a.k.a. entering deeper delusion of (compulsive) Thought by way of identification).
Going through is not necessarily always going out. Going out can actually be going out.
All depends on degree of clarity of sight and truthfulness.
End of becoming/not becoming. End of “me" and its many torments.
To do without doing. Move without moving.
No need to cling to passing thoughts even as one seems to enter them and as they move through us.

All this to say no point in confusing one thing for another even as the other thing is just an effect of THAT.
To just see things.. as they are.. without the deceptions of mind.

(Please note that everytime I seem to be critiquing Thought, I am just referring to you/anyone being used/deceived by it and not the You /You using Thought).
Any perceived object can only trigger/reflect what already is and doesn't create anything.
When captivated/extroverted we take the perceived object and the whole story or image-building around it led by the mind to be the source of whatever it might be triggering/reflecting a.k.a. the cherished process of identification a.k.a. self-concocted suffering.
See your sights, feel your feelings, hear your sounds, taste your flavours, know your touch. it's all just you.
And when it all/the experiencing/perceiving quiets down as/when you remain just a witness/fully present what remains is The (ever unmoved) You.
Spontaneity doesn't mean unserious/not making clear decisions, or any other prevalent childish notions. 
Clarity for clear decisions/actions/thought also comes from the same spontaneity if we are truly spontaneous and not lost thinking of spontaneity/being spontaneous projecting ideas motivated by the unconscious/ignorance.
In other words, flow of intelligence is ever available if we stop resisting the undercurrent of being and just stop confusing one thing with another.
Do away with falling for the very fragmented mind.
Stop fooling yourself.
When you love someone truly, fiercely, and unquestionably, it begins the deepest kind of merging, a dissolution of your"self"a.k.a. the seeming of Mind a.k.a. the known/the mind/the I/me!
You become them, and you honour that effortlessly, remain true to it Choicelessly.
Love, unlike all other fleeting things, doesn't depend on anything for its flow and expression. It naturally finds its way, enduring all just by being Love.
It sometimes resides in the quiet, it sometimes arrives fiercely, washing over you and your egoic/mental defences like a stream running through the mountains relentlessly. It lives on quietly, musically, unfailingly. Love sometimes is patiently sitting at your door like a devotee at the altar. And what else could it do?
It is all about the beloved, the one who loves is forever carried in the beloved and vice versa; the two are always deeply powerfully One. Fighting or controlling this immensity is like arguing with the Divine, a fool's errand. All you can do is humbly get out of the way.
You become who you love. You are who you love.
Anything short of it is a waste of time. Adopt a greater degree of foolishness. When looking for a pearl in the depth of the ocean, abandon all ideas of reason and rationality!
Go all out. Love them completely. Do not half-ass your way through life.
What we call "demons" (there is more to this subject but in this piece I am capturing it in just psychological sense and how it ties in with the human mind) are our saṃskāra (impressions/imprints cyclically creating and shaping themselves/tendencies) which we have long confused to be the (true) Self/That.
Anything that triggers us and brings us face to face with them is doing the work of the Gurū showing us the way to our limitless untouched true nature/That.
Each trigger and the associated reactivity holds the key to realisation and liberation. Each unconscious reaction can reinforce the existing bondage by way of strengthening the accumulation of existing tendencies and the identification to them owing to the identification with them.
The sākṣi (witness-awareness/total presence) is the quiet lamp guiding us out of the deceptions of the mind until the following happens 
"gate gate pāragate pārasaṃgate bodhi svāhā" (translates to gone gone completely to the other shore, which is to say the empty substanceless seemingly arising a.k.a. nature of mind and therefore everything it projects is seen/realised to be just as substance-less because you see they are not two at which point one truly starts living from the being than being swayed by the influences-perceptions of the mind.. 
Naturally this deepens and settles with continual proper practice.
All perceived images/things/objects lose influence when we are just present a.k.a. fully seeing. fully feeling. fully tasting. fully hearing and listening. 
Choicelessly. a.k.a. being available/receptive to ever-present grace.
And when all experienching/perceiving quiets down owing to presence what then remains is just the You/That.
Continual surrender feeding realisation.)

We get swayed by words, by perceived effects in various shapes and forms and miss the whole thing, or miss seeing the one behind them too often. It's like looking at the illusion around something/someone seems to have around themselves, but never getting past it and looking at the actual thing. And of course as long as we are looking to be swayed we can't see anything as it is. As long as we don't become utterly rooted and comfortable where we are (a.k.a. being here now.. fully. totally.) we cannot see anything as it is.
And then we cry when the bubble of illusion of our own unconscious choosing bursts.
Just look at the damn thing.
Let truthfulness flower in you.
All the spiritual texts are clear. And simple. There are no riddles anywhere (if we are perceiving riddles-sensemaking-projecting, it means we are still seeking something somewhere "there" a.k.a. mind enmeshed in senses, which is okay but best to be honest and clear about it to get past the whole clinginess to a certain person-al idea of seeking which is often just you letting the mind trick you. The whole idea of riddle is a projection/lack of seeing clearly. All that there is is That but allow me to be very clear and say again that when I say this I am not referring to the ideas that mind projects as a part of its habitual tendency to make sense mixed with accumulated memory/knowledge owing to extroversion of Mind/enmeshment with the senses.).. 
That is if you are willing to abandon the notion that it has necessarily got to be a strugglesome path/some kind of roundabout way to "here" (which is also an idea well because never not been here/That). 
So far as sādhanā (spiritual practice) is concerned it can and often should continue all the time and through it all even as we have dedicated hours for it, and yet one can just drop it regardless of what the seeming of body-mind is doing (and before the monkey mind rushes to make assumptions, you should know that nothing foolish/the reader might or might not like to hear is being implied or said here.). 
Avoid mixing up non-dual awareness/realisation with person-al/conditioned intellectual confusions that come to fragment view, the mind is continually a deceiver.
Consider the possibility that maybe just maybe it is simple indeed.
The "drop it" is implied in the sense of mind of course a.k.a. see/let it move through, don't cling.
To see things as they are means to really see things as they are. 
Dhyāna is our best friend to move past the deep debris of all conditioning and see things as they are. 
Can we be together through our perceived differences?
It’s already happening all the time outside of our conscious mind but we draw imaginary boundaries in the mind made of Thought, and so we lose ourselves in needless separations of the heart across all relationships.
There is a possibility to come upon a way of being and living where one is entirely free of conflict-division inwardly, that way is not a result of mere adjustment of thought but a natural flowering of wisdom when one starts living from beyond the mind.
"Easy"/"hard" is just projection/thought like anything else.
you can only ever engage in anything headfirst and NOW.

Doing anything sideways, rationalizing with "I will be better/ready/skilled etc *tomorrow/later* if I do x/y/z" is cope/resistance and therefore only perpetuating the same behaviour.

And the thing is you won't be good/better/more prepared for anything any better/any more than you are right NOW.

If it's not Now, it's never; cliche and true to a fault.
One cannot walk into some sort of "perfect" timing/thing by looking for workarounds or without ever starting.
Do you see how mind fools itself when it resists something owing to fear a.k.a. when it clings to an image of self and fears it might crumble?
When I resign things to time psychologically, I simply abandon understanding the movement within my own thought-feeling landscape.