You have been given an opportunity in this life by having a so-called body
with which to work in order to awaken from the mortal dream. 

Yet you use this opportunity for other purposes. 

You use it to attain name and fame
as if that is going to do anything for you in the long run. 

You use it to develop powers, you're wasting your effort. 

Karmically you have been given this body
to transcend,
to transmute.
To let go.
To surrender. 

Yet you spend all of your time doing the opposite.
You waste your time by reacting to everything that comes your way.
If you believe you're not awakened, you're not free,
you're not liberated when you react to person, place or thing,
you come under the law of karma which appears to exist.

~ Robert Adams