“The spiritual journey is not a career or a success story. It is a series of humiliations of the false self that become more and more profound.” (Thomas Keating)
Someone wrote the other day that with Awakening there sometimes comes a stretch of losses to show us we are beyond those. That may be the experience of some, but we can operate at a higher state of being where the enjoyment of successes is registered just as the pain associated with failures, while we know that we are Awareness watching the assessment of life’s so-perceived ups and downs. Self inquiry allows us to smooth-sail all of life’s occurrences. The lucky streak is welcomed just as much as the occasional stumble.
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