There is an often misunderstood aspect of spirituality that has been perpetuated a lot… that when you reach spiritual awakening or enlightenment, all your troubles go away, you’re consistently happy, you’re in the state of bliss/love/peace etc. forever and ever, and there is never anything you need to worry about again.
However, when you truly reach this state, you will not want to run away from your humanness, you will instead embrace it, and watch, almost from a detached place, the beauty of your humanness and your earthly existence. It is truly a special place to be, and an experience to be had. It is not that you will no longer have human emotions or needs or wants. The best way I can put it is that you will no longer have such an intense attachment to needing those things. You will no longer judge negativity so much, you will no longer be embroiled so deeply in pain, judgment, hatred etc. In the same breath, you will no longer be embroiled so deeply within ecstasy, enthusiasm, joy etc. There will be something deeper there, it may feel like an inner peace or bliss or love… and it will joyfully and with detachment observe all that is. Even when you get angry, you will know that that anger is not you, you will not own that anger… you will simply let it be. Again, it is not about being this observer of your emotions, it is simply about being all that is.
You are both a human being and a spiritual being, and there is no need to get stuck in either one of them, but to simply embrace all that both have to offer.
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