As long as you keep wanting, you keep dreaming. We spend much of life trying to become someone — more successful, more spiritual, more powerful, more secure. But becoming someone is still identification with the person, and the person is part of the dream. The desire to become keeps you bound to Maya. As long as you are saying, I am this, I am that, I need this, I fear losing that, I must become more, you are strengthening the identity that keeps you asleep. Awakening is not the creation of a new identity. It is the realization that the separate “me” you spent your life defending, improving, and becoming was never what you truly are. You are not the body. You are not the mind. You are not the personality. You are the Awareness in which they appear. Manifestation can be powerful. You can use mind, intention, energy, focus, and belief to create different experiences. But understand: Manifestation is still happening inside the dream. Money, homes, relationships, health, success, ...