The few, in their variously named attempts, approaches and disciplines to achieve something extraordinary and far removed from everyday existence, have a wiring anomaly in their brain that causes their consciousness to be dissatisfied with its natural, impermanent nature. What they, (usually unwittingly), are attempting to do is hammer out in their consciousness something that is permanent. It is this longed for something that is being called: awakening; enlightenment; liberation.
Maneuvering your awareness to see the situation thus can be of great help. No way to prove it, you have to try it. Just hold the idea as consistently as possible.
“My wanting to awaken is a desire to produce something permanent in my consciousness finally! And for the first time, something permanent in consciousness.”
This is presented with the highest recommendation. You might further enjoy noting that it is this lack of anything permanent in man’s consciousness that accounts for his irrational love of memories, (even irrelevant, embarrassing and painful ones). They represent an approximation of something permanent in the mind.
J.