Anyone who has stepped away from the belief system of their upbringing and gone in search of their own has taken a good first step. At the risk of appearing, uh, self-serving?, self-aggrandizing?, self-something, I would say that the fact that you’re here, reading this, is, at the very minimum, a strong second step. If you just wanted to have a nice life, you’d probably be somewhere between a casual meditator and a follower of online nonduality teachers of the TIITIOTTIATI variety. (titty-oh-ti-AH-ti. Insert your own titty joke here. Don’t make me do everything.)