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Spiritual awakening often feels less like a triumphant arrival and more like an unraveling. 🌿

When you start to recognize the ego for what it is — not your enemy, but a temporary lens you’ve been living through — you can experience a flood of feelings, sometimes all at once.

Some of the most common are:

Grief — for all the time you spent believing you were only your roles, your achievements, or your fears.

Loneliness — because many people around you may still be deeply identified with their egos, and you start craving deeper, more authentic connections.

Freedom — the lightness of realizing you don’t have to constantly defend or perfect an identity anymore.

Confusion — because so much of what you once valued feels less solid or meaningful now.

Compassion — toward yourself and others, realizing we’ve all been doing the best we can with the tools we were given.

Stillness — moments when you feel deeply okay even if nothing external has changed.

And sometimes, there’s a deep fatigue — because holding up the ego was exhausting in ways you didn’t realize until you set it down.

Awakening is not an escape from the human experience. It’s an invitation to live it more honestly, more tenderly, and more awake.