I don’t remember writing this, I must have said something to that extent during one of those long video chats a few years ago.
Although I don’t think I’ve ever used, to mean “direct route”, the formulation “direct path” which is indeed confusing: it gives ideas of some secret hardcore tech for reckless actualists (kind of like the “rapid way” fantaisies did in my time). As an aside, pursuing those fantaisies amounts in my experience to nothing but delaying doing what works in favor of what doesn’t. Aka “how to lose time and get nowhere while thinking oneself a badass”.
As to how easy it is, I don’t think I’m the first actually free person to have made that remark that, however tiny and hard to find the door may look, however narrow the path may appear, once on the other side and looking back one sees only the wide, straight, wondrous way one has followed, only the immense door that was always there; a path so easy and a door so obvious that if one ever stumbled or got lost, it must have been out of one’s willingness to.