Awakening is neither gradual nor sudden; it is timeless.


Pointers for the working-mind

”The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one’s own ignorance concerning oneself and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one’s self."


Aldous Huxley@WisdomRecycle.com

Beyond words ❤️

"This song, as simple as it is, has helped me tremendously with my mental health struggles. Thank you."
"I have watched this over and over, over months. And every single time I get emotional. I love and breathe Cleo. Her songs have been sooooooo helpful in my time of healing. Trying to live that 'softer' life."

Holger Hub-bs: 

I am not claiming anything in regard to awakening, every day brings new insights.

What do I really want?
This is a very important question to ask, so that mind knows when it can rest.

I spent decades practicing unhappiness, being locked up in the me-bubble, intimidated by thoughts and feelings, tossed around by moods. I erroneously believed myself to be the thinker/feeler as a body-mind.

The sense of being a separate-self, an autonomous entity, is 10% faulty thinking and 90% muscle-memory.

"Me" spent decades with all kinds of spiritual teachings, always hungry for more.
What had the biggest impact in debunking my suffering was direct human-interchange, mostly via Zoom:

Thank you Magdi, for your love and friendship, your gentleness and patient wisdom! 

It took a while for "me" to trust and dissolve in your Satsangs, but it is worth everything 😇. 

So amazing that the "me" on whose behalf I suffered and struggled was just a belief!

.:.

Thank you Irena, for your weekly Roger meetings!
Super helpful to have a solid conceptual framework, like puppy-training for the mind.

.:.

Thank you to all the truth lovers I met during the last four years at the GardenOfFriends.com 🌱
Being together, soaking in Presence, sharing and clarifying, learning how to use words, was and is priceless.

Looking back, it feels like magic, how things unfold!


Again, no claim to anything!

I love to rest in "I don't know" – for me this is God's Presence, being home.

Thank you Deanna for touching my heart so deeply open, and allowing me to feel so safe, beyond words.


Maybe a last sorry to the world...

Sorry for all my selfish and arrogant preachiness how life works and what truth is; it is such a gift to have friends who can look through the me-mask, to the heart, and not run away literally or mentally/emotionally. 

"Me" butchered so many friendships.
Sorry, I was too numb and afraid to feel, to be gentle with myself, I tried too hard.


Feeling and sharing is so amazing!

Being open, available, vulnerable; not as a conceptual "me" entity, but as the empty open Awareness, I am!

Nobody can explain to you how chocolate tastes, you have to risk it yourself.

The same with being yourself!
The real problem with nonduality, with freedom teachings, is that it is too simple!

"I am the way, the truth, the light", but using the mind, trying to understand, is missing the mark.

Alone, "me" was the trap, even with the noblest intentions.

 
Mind cannot enter into the Sanctuary of Now.

Thank you for no-thing.
Thank you to Life for this amazing gift of understanding, experience, friendship.

Nothing fancy, rather mundane, but so deep and nurturing ❤️
Thank you for friends who love Love and Wisdom.
Friends who are not afraid to expose "me" as a myth.


Words can be so clunky and deceiving!

Vibrational-Awakening is a term I heard from my mother decades ago;
but I was too invested in the me-belief, too afraid to feel.


Vibrational-Awakening

We could create a big library with great music, but the simpler, the better.
Only a few songs for now, I listened to a lot, and which resonate deeply (not intended as a one-fits-all, but even dislikes are pointing home):