Awakening is slowly, imperceptibly, it reshapes you.
Piece by piece until one day you look back and wonder
how you ever lived any other way.
With the awakening comes a slow,
inevitable shedding,
a quitting of everything that is
not truly you.
1. Quitting approval (the desire to be seen, liked, validated)
2. Quitting specialness (the need
to be special, unique, admired)
– authenticity without
costumes
– blooming from within because of
your nature, like a flower
3. Quitting performances (no
pretending anymore)
It is about being real, letting
life flow without a mask, authenticity carries an own kind of
light.
It is the gentle glow of
truth.
4. Quit the need for
certainty
– discovering wonder, discovering
mystery
– not knowing is a doorway, life
becomes a dance, not a puzzle to solve
5. Quit blaming others, blaming
the world, even blaming yourself
it no longer serves you, it
blinds you to the gift of life
6. Quitting spirituality as an
escape
you can no longer hide behind
meditation or great words to avoid your feelings or your
wounds
you stop bypassing your
experience and instead live it fully
spirit and flesh become
one
You finally surrender and
discover something luminous:
Being human is not the obstacle
to awakening, it is the doorway.
To embrace humanity is to embrace
divinity.
To feel your fear, your longing,
your grief is to touch the living pulse of the universe.
7. Quit the idea that you are
different, separate, superior (quit isolation)
– you are deeply connected to
everyone, not through sameness but through shared
humanity
– you discover community in
presence
– you quit isolation and open
your heart again, not in naive merging but in conscious
connection
You can just sit with anyone and
meet them as they are.
You no longer need to prove
yourself or to protect yourself.
You can simply be.
Quitting is not your
doing.
It is life moving through
you
shaping you in who you truly
are.
And the more gently you surrender, the more gracefully it unfolds.
Once you see it, you cannot unsee
it.
Life will never again let you go
back to sleep.
Trust the process.
Do not force it.
Do not resist it.
Let it unfold as it
must.
Let life peel away what is no
longer needed.
Stop fighting.
Let it happen.
It will be
uncomfortable.
But it will be a wonderful life
on the other side.
Do not be afraid of the emptiness
it leaves.
For emptiness is not
nothingness.
It is space.
And in that space, the true self
flowers.
Slowly, quietly,
beautifully.
Truth does not need applause,
performance or certainty.
Truth simply is.
And when you align with
it,
life itself becomes lighter,
simpler, more fluid.
Awakening is not a path you walk,
it is a current that carries you.
All you need to do is stop
clinging.
It is not about becoming someone
new.
It is about no longer pretending,
it is indeed about quitting who you no longer are.
The greatest fruit of awakening
is love.
Not the love of
romance.
It is the love of presence, of
shared being.
You realize that when masks fall
away,
what remains between us is always
love.
Awakening is not about becoming
someone else.
It is about remembering who you
really are
when all else has fallen
away.
And when that memory
returns,
when you finally rest as
yourself,
you will realize something
astonishing.
You were never missing
anything.
You were never
broken.
You only forgot.
And now you are
remembering.
And this my friends is
freedom.
loveliest paraphrasing A.Watts