Sacrifice.
What are you willing to sacrifice for your soul path, for awakening, for enlightenment? What are you willing to sacrifice to be your true self?
This is a difficult question to answer. Many might like to think that they are willing to sacrifice everything for the greater good, for oneness or to become their true self, but this becomes infinitely harder when we are confronted with our deepest fears. The path to enlightenment is often compared to a journey through hell and this is because awakening is usually a destructive process. All of the attachements that we have formed throughout our life (and even past lives) have to be broken down and removed completely, and this is because you simply cannot be free while restricting yourself in any way.
For me, the light through this process is one born of an inner knowing that I am an infinite being, and because I am an infinite being, I will always be ok. Nothing can harm infinity because infinity just “is”, so then nothing can truly harm me. My fears and attachments are illusory in nature, created by my individual perception of suffering. I do not want to suffer, but what is this “I”? It is a part of the illusion of separation; it is the ego. Therefore, it is the ego that does not want to suffer. It is the ego that does not want to be sacrificed.
So as an infinite being, I then understand that I must be willing to sacrifice everything to truly be infinity. And as difficult and terrifying as this may be for the ego, I also know that I, the true infinite “I”, will always be ok.
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