When finally,
After some time on the spiritual journey,
You begin to feel part of all that is,
This happens.
You relax.
You feel lighter.
You have more energy.
You feel younger,
Sometimes almost ageless.
You become warmer and gentler with others.
You experience self-forgiveness and more easily forgive others.
You see both your own and others' errors as teachers.
Material wealth and possessions become less captivating.
It becomes easier to acknowledge and speak the truth.
Competitiveness dies away.
You seldom,
If ever,
Feel lonely.
You might experience memories arising from past lives.
These help you understand yourself and your current life circumstances better.
You feel an instinctual confidence in yourself and your abilities that no other person can take from you.
The deeper meaning of religious sayings and teachings dawns within you.
You become more present in every moment.
The way you feel in your body tells you if someone is lying to you or not.
You more easily accept yourself despite your faults and foibles,
Which makes it much easier to accept others as well.
You demand less from others because your needs are met internally through your connection to the Creator.
You become braver.
You become more ethical because you don't want to hurt or discourage anybody.
Increasingly,
You know everything is really one,
So you don't measure people on the basis of clothes,
Possessions,
Or capabilities.
You become kinder and more generous.
You see others more deeply and clearly and instinctively support their well-being.
You feel closest to others whose hearts have awakened too.
You strongly want to help humanity somehow.
If someone is rude or treats you badly,
You see it as a lesson or karma from this life or another,
And that helps.
This bigger perspective minimizes the emotional response to it all.
You know everybody is part of the Creator and infinitely valuable and much the same as you are.
You center in your heart and body.
Your intellect loses its throne.
You realize our cultures are producing unhappy people alienated from Mother Nature.
You know that we are all part of Nature,
Not separate from Her.
All you want is to unite more deeply with the Creator and share your unconditional love.
People's criticisms and negative judgments about you don't impact you.
You constantly discover new talents and capabilities within,
Like a flower blossoming.
Sometimes inner resistance and difficult emotions arise,
But you move through them and get more wisdom as a result.
You might wish you had awakened sooner in life,
But underneath you know that the process had to take as long as it did.
Really,
You're just glad that you woke up at all.
Okay,
Bless your heart.
Never give up.
Any darkness that you come across will dissolve in greater light as you just move forward.
You know,
The darker the dark,
The brighter that light that finally comes.
Okay,
So bless your hearts.
