The Myth of Spiritual Awakening- Myth-busting Week, Day 7

We’re often taught to imagine awakening as a singular, extraordinary event.

𝑶𝒏𝒆 𝒅𝒂𝒚, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 "𝒘𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒖𝒑".

You become more peaceful. More conscious. More loving. You transcend your old self. You see the truth. And somehow, you’re no longer quite as human as everyone else.

But what if that’s the myth?

Awakening doesn’t necessarily mean you stop feeling anger, grief, jealousy, fear, loneliness or uncertainty. It doesn’t mean you stop getting irritated in traffic.

It doesn’t mean you never become defensive, attached, confused or afraid.

𝑨 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒇𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒃𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏.

You can experience oneness and still have an argument with someone you love.

You can understand impermanence and still desperately want something not to change.

You can see through an old identity and then quietly create a new one around being “the person who has awakened.”

Perhaps awakening isn’t about escaping the human condition. Perhaps it’s about becoming intimate enough with it that you no longer need to escape.

You wake up, and then you live.

😵‍💫You get messy.

😍You love.

🥺You lose.

🤬You react.

👀You notice.

🫣You begin again.

Maybe there is no final state in which you arrive.

𝑴𝒂𝒚𝒃𝒆 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒈𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 - 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒊𝒔.

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