Stress is caused by being 'here' but wanting to be 'there'.
When the movie comes to an end, you are not totally the same person you are when you started the movie.
The actual experience of awakening can only be in the present moment.
A teacher or teaching is not essential for spiritual awakening, but they save time.
We are in the final stages of egoic madness. Almost the whole world is fighting each other. We witnessed the final stages of egoic madness in the 20th century, and even now it still is playing itself out. It has not quite come to an end yet.
You cannot receive what you don't give. Outflow determines inflow. Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you already have, but unless you allow it to flow out, you won't even know that you have it. This includes abundance.