Tag: awakening
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Ego’s Hold
If you have been reading my blog, you know that I am struggling with releasing the ego. This is a critical stage of spiritual growth, and feels like climbing Mt. Everest. What I have observed within me is this tug of war. I would fluctuate between utter freedom without worry or fear, and then fear…
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Overcoming Hurdles of Awakening
The path to awakening is not through meditation, yoga, or ritual practice, it is through our genuine intention to change our lives. Awakening happens for people who are seeking another way of life, and seeking truth about our existence here. That’s why awakening can happen to people who are not consciously seeking awakening like me.…
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Feeling the Shift
After feeling my ego recede yesterday, today I felt this great shift within me. The feeling within is this lightness and of unburdened freedom. I walk through the campus where I work with a huge smile on my face, lightness in my step, my mind is clear and silent, and my eyes sparkling with wonder.…
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Death and Renewal
Yesterday, I experienced a death of sorts. I have been struggling with fears in my life caused by my ego, and realized that my fears have hurt the people in my life as well as myself. My fears have triggered my instinct to run away based on my perceived rejections and fear of failure.…
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Acknowledging My Losses
I have a hard shell, and it is not something I am proud of, but there is a reason for this. I have had to endure so much loss in my life. My grandparents who raised me from birth until 8 years old both have passed away. At 8 years old, I was taken away…
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Ego’s Fear of Failure and Rejection
A common occurrence in people who were abused as children is the fear of rejection and failure created by our egos. Maybe facing rejection and failure again in one’s life after being rejected and made to feel like a failure initially by our parents are just too hard to bear again. In my emotional recovery work,…
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Healing through Self Love
These two years of my spiritual journey has been learning about self love through healing. Self love forces us to find the truth about ourselves, how ever difficult the truth may be to face. We see ourselves in all of our blemishes, sores, hurts, and wounds. In spite of all this, we learn to love…
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Inner Reflections
Since this month is the second anniversary of my awakening and spiritual journey, I find it is appropriate for me to reflect on my progress. I started this new blog on WordPress to commemorate my recent milestone in my progress. During these two years, my journey has been filled with struggles with karma, physical and…
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“Ego Death”
I put Ego Death in quotes in the title because I did not experience ego death through the dark night of the soul as many have described it. My recent experience is a recession of ego that came quite suddenly like turning on or off a light switch. What I experienced was quite humane, and logical.…
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