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3 Strange Gifts You Earn on the Inner Path That No One Understands
And how these gifts impact my life
After ‘God,’ I think ‘spirituality’ has become the second most corrupted word.
People think being spiritual is about doing things, such as chanting, lighting incense candles, debating on intellectual topics, manifesting, practicing mystical healing arts, some woo-woo stuff, or proving you know better than others.
No!
Spirituality is a way of living.
It is dropping your identities like clothes and becoming naked in your soul.
Sometimes, dropping identities seems like someone pulling your skin out alive. Life does not, per se, cause pain. It is the intensity of your clingingness that causes pain.
But once a distance is created between you and your identity, you become closer to the pure life. With this comes certain gifts that many people never understand.
Not afraid of solitude.
In my journey, I felt abandoned for an extended period.
Ironically, I was there for others. But when I needed a shoulder to cry upon or a supportive word, nobody was there.
