If you’ve ever traveled to a new and unknown country/city, you’ve most likely felt the tingling excitement of wanting to experience as much as you can … but not knowing where to start.
You ask locals, seek out information, and read maps.
In essence, you’re looking for guidance; someone who has already traveled the paths, knows the byroads, and is able to point out the dangers and problems along the way.
The journey of reconnecting with your Soul (Ensoulment) is much the same. Without any map, we need a guide who can give us the right directions, the necessary encouragement, and someone who can help us avoid the clutches of the ego.
The inner journey is the most difficult and challenging undertaking that we can ever make. When most people start the spiritual journey, they make the mistake of using the ego’s voice and limitations to guide themselves.
But using the ego to seek transcendence is like asking a fish to describe what water is: it can’t possibly know what it’s really looking for!
Without mature spiritual guidance, we easily get lost, deluded, confused, and discouraged. In this article, my goal is to help you learn how to find authentic spiritual guides that can deepen your path of inner transformation.
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11 Authentic Forms of Spiritual Guidance
If you’re feeling lost on your life journey and need spiritual guidance, let me give you an overview. From a bird’s eye perspective, there are numerous paths available to you. The major ones include:
- Spiritual teachers and gurus (what we will be focusing on in this article)
- Personal spirit guides (Read: 7 Types of Spirit Guides (& How to Connect With Them)
- Spiritual books, courses, and workshops (some, not all, are helpful – be discerning)
- Dream work (receiving and interpreting guidance from your dreams)
- Learning to trust your intuition (Read: How to Trust Your Intuition)
- Astral travel (or active imagination)
- Automatic handwriting (Read: How to Channel Your Soul Through Automatic Writing)
- Meditation and visualizations
- Altered states of consciousness (Read: How to Induce a Trance State For Deep Psychospiritual Work)
- Esoteric practices such as reading the I Ching, Runes, or Oracle and Tarot cards
- Nature-oriented guidance such as going on a vision quest or ingesting a plant medicine like Ayahuasca
While some of these paths require tremendous commitment (these are usually the best), others require temporary or minimal effort. It’s important to focus on your current needs and desires to determine which paths to follow.
For instance, if you’re a busy mother of three children, maybe abandoning everything to follow a guru isn’t exactly a great idea. As always, be sensitive to your life context and ask yourself, “What is my core desire?“
Also, the above list isn’t exhaustive (I’m sure I’ve missed something) – you’ll find gaps, I’m sure. But I hope it has given you a clear overview on the kind of spiritual guidance paths available to you.
So what next?
In the rest of this article, we’ll be focusing specifically on how to find genuine spiritual teachers – one of the most spiritually healing (but also dangerous) paths out there. Here’s what you need to know:
Why We Need Spiritual Teachers
We may study books all our lives, we may become very intellectual, but in the end we find that we have not developed at all spiritually … To quicken the spirit, the impulse must come from another soul. The person from whose soul such impulse comes is called the Guru – the teacher.
– Swami Vivekananda
In the realm of spirituality, true teachers never really teach you anything in the conventional way. They don’t want to provide new beliefs, rules, or information for you to cling to. Instead, they help you to remove that which is in the way, that which separates you from the truth of who you already are and what you already know in the depth of your being.
In other words, a true teacher’s job is to serve as a mirror, until we’re able to realize that the light within them is also the light within us.
In the words of the 6th century sage Lao Tzu:
The Sage has no fixed heart of his own. Those who look at him see their own hearts.
True spiritual teachers are like empty vessels that are filled with nothing. Through them, we experience the limitless, untouched ocean of love that can be found in all things. Through them, we also become conscious of whatever is blocking our ability to experience light. Whether it be past wounds, mental attachments, or egotistical desires, these blocks become the next part of your inner work.
I can say from personal experience that many spiritual seekers begin with the craving to find stimulating ideas, theories, beliefs, and intellectual discussions. But under the wings of a true spiritual teacher, they eventually end up becoming disappointed.
Why?
Seekers who are looking for novel or glittery ideas become disillusioned because such ideas are only signposts towards the Truth – they are not the Truth itself. And in many cases, these novel ideas actually become distractions that mislead us into the labyrinths of the mind again.
In the end, it’s true that the best Teacher is within us, that our ultimate guide is our own Souls. But how can those of us who have no idea what the Soul looks or feels like possibly guide ourselves when we are stumbling through the dark?
For the vast majority of people, a teacher, guru, guide, mentor, spiritually knowledgeable therapist, or even a wise soul friend or twin flame, is invaluable on the path toward a more awakened state.
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How to Find a True Spiritual Guide?
In ancient Shamanic wisdom, we don’t find a teacher; the teacher finds us.
Spirit Animals are one example of this truth: we don’t find our spirit animals, our spirit animals find us.
Once our thirst for answers awakens and we begin our spiritual awakening quest, the light within us becomes stronger, and the stronger it becomes, the more we attract guides and people that support our growth. For example, it’s common for spiritual seekers to receive guidance from spiritual signs and omens, prophetic dreams, and even serendipitous teachings or messages.
Sometimes it takes years for spiritual teachers and spiritual guidance to find us. But when they come, how do we know whether they’re the right teacher for us?
Understandably, most people feel some level of fear when considering becoming involved with a teacher. Deep down we fear being used, exploited, or entrapped.
The truth is that we are only ever trapped by our own desires, attachments, and what we project onto the teacher. If we truly seek liberation, then all teachers are merely vehicles of learning – and that’s as far as their role extends.
In my experience, you can tell that you’ve found your teacher when you feel an immediate strong and intense link of love for their teachings. Your heart will feel open and elevated when reading this person’s words or sitting in their presence.
But how do we know if these feelings are sincere? How do we know that we’re not just being charmed or given a false sense of security?
Here I find that the Sufi tradition has a wonderful approach where the disciples are allowed to test their Sheikhs (teachers).
Abū-Sa’īd Abul-Khayr was a poet and Sufi mystic who was one of the first to describe the qualities to look for as proof in a true teacher.
There are at least ten characteristics of a true spiritual teacher:
1. S/he must have embodied the spiritual message to be able to have disciples.
2. S/he must have personally traveled the mystic path to be able to show the way.
3. S/he must have become refined and educated in order to be an educator.
4. S/he must be generous and devoid of self-importance so that s/he can sacrifice wealth on behalf of the disciple.
5. S/he must have no hand in the disciple’s wealth so that s/he is not tempted to use it for himself/herself.
6. Whenever s/he can give advice through a sign, s/he will not use direct expression.
7. Whenever s/he can educate through kindness, s/he will not use violence and harshness.
8. Whatever s/he orders, s/he has first accomplished.
9. Whatever s/he forbids the disciple, s/he has abstained from himself/herself.
10. S/he will not abandon the students for the sake of the world.
These characteristics are a starting point to help us distinguish between power, greed, or status-hungry “teachers” and genuine vehicles of Spirit that contribute to our evolution.
Unlike other teachers, spiritual guides are faced with the most difficult teaching of all: to teach others the way of ego death and surrender into divine truth. Ultimately, the teacher is a ferryman who takes you from the shores of your ego to the shores of Divine Union.
Conclusion
Anandamayi Ma, described as “the most perfect flower the Indian soil has produced,” once explained that a disciple’s attitude is more important than the guru.
Ultimately, no one can give us self-realization. We must find it ourselves. An outer teacher can only reveal the real teacher hidden within us.
Even the false teachers we come across on the way help us to learn the value of developing our own sense of spiritual discernment and judgment.
Finding a true teacher and genuine spiritual guidance, deep down, is about discovering how sincere we are on our spiritual quest.
Honest seekers understand that the outer world is only a catalyst for bringing us closer to the truth that is already hidden within us.
I hope this article has helped to educate, empower, and inspire you. If it has, please let me know in the comments below!
I want your opinion on these coaches offering spiritual courses online for 8 weeks and costing 2300-5000 is that right? Or am I out of the loop of the cost of spiritual help
Thanks Christine for raising a valuable question. In the cyber-economy that is the online spiritual education industry, there’s all kinds of courses with all kinds of price tags. I’m not sure I’m fully convinced behind the price tag of many of these premium courses, even ones outside the spiritual area, but it seems like the popular thing at the moment with the ‘sales point’ of the price as an investment in your commitment to this learning journey as 95% of paid courses actually never get completed.
Some seem to be able to justify the price, with personal coaching, one-on-one support, real-life gatherings, etc.. but others fall a bit short. Like everything in the marketplace, one must be discerning.
Svaka oseba , ženskog ili muškog spola, ne treba duhovnog učitelja da krene putem duhvnog rasta , jer se u svakom čoveku , unutar njegov tela , Božijeg hrama je utelešena duša , koja vodi ljudski Um da sprejeme Dušu kao deo Boga odnosno da prihvati kao Boga , i prihvati Bezuslovnu ljubav , do svakog stvarstva Božijeg , od rastline ,živali do čoveka kao bitje na višjem nivoju zavesti.
Um je sluga Duši , i to mora ljudski um da prihvati Dušu kao viši Ja i da nesluži ego , kao niži Ja , jer ego se bori da održi svoj položaj, stvara strah i dvome , a to je hrana za ego .
Kada Um prihvati Dušu kao deo Boga , prihvatio Svevišnjega stvranika svega što postoji u Univerzumu, i da izvršava volju Godpoda . Ja sam koji sam . Po volji Gospoda Boga tako je , jednom za sve čase.
This is a sure path to spiritual bypassing; it’s basically saying because we all carry a spark of the divine within us, spirit, we need no guidance or help, and should just trust whatever undeveloped or immature qualities within us to guide our way. Centuries of religious oppression and terrible things done in the name of God would heavily weigh against this line of thinking.
Mateo, I love and sincerely appreciate how you poked holes in your missive, asking pertinent questions a Seeker would actually ask of ones Self, in the places in the discussion where they would ask. This proves to me that you have walked this path, doubted and returned stronger for having challenged a concept or a potential teacher, but mostly it tells me that you impart Truth to us all. I have been a fan and a follower for a couple of years now, and your missives and wisdom always find me at the right times. I remain a fan, a follower, and a learner who walks parallel to you both.
I appreciate your kind words Ekel, the deeper I go into this the more ways I realize how much of a learner I really am haha. I guess it’s the paradox of this journey; the more I discover, the less I know, but the closer I feel. It’s a joy to be able to learn/teach through my interaction with you guys :)
This was amazing. My thing has been attracting a teacher that can educate me on some spiritual gifts and abilities I have. I haven’t found any other eduction on them. It is scary learning the ins and outs of yourself and basically testing the boundaries and depths of who you are so you can maintain control, without losing your sanity lol.
Thanks Key. It’s always tricky to explore gifts with teachers; the more one explores this path the less important the gifts seem to become.
So the teachers that do explore gifts are often focused too much on these ‘specialness’ aspects that in some wisdom traditions are considered distractions along the way that prevent us from going deeper into the nature of the ‘self’, or our true nature, that which is beyond the ephemeral gifts.
Key, YOU are your greatest teacher. Know thyself. Look yourself up anytime you want to and check yourself out on the sacred path of Looking At Your Charts. Our charts are very personal and tailored to each of us. We can read our charts to learn about our spiritual gifts and abilities, plus they show the shadow and the light side of our potential. They show us how to maneuver weaknesses, and which direction to go towards the bullseye in our life. See: astrology, human design, numerology, enneagram, myers-briggs, discover your archetypes and live them in the light, etc.
I have been with a very famous and well-regarded guru for 20 years and feel more lost now than when I started.
Ultimately, some, perhaps only a hand full of us will come to the conclusion that our best guru will be Love and Forgivenesses as in the true teachings of Christ.
This is the hardest lesson for me, yet I know is the most valuable one.
Just imagine an eagle asking a chicken how to fly because they too have feathers…
Gracias!
Thank you Manu, I feel like Love and Forgiveness seems to be at the center of most major teachings from these religious figures. Ultimately which path you choose is up to each person and their own inclinations, culture, etc, we definitely need to find a common thread within these paths to appreciate one anothers truths but I definitely can vouch for the necessity to commit to one path in order to soar like the Eagle :)
Thank you Sol. This article was very very beautiful.
Thank you Sayidah, I’m grateful to to hear that :)
Good read. Mateo (and Aletheia) have a knack for cutting through the bovine excrement. Though I am wary of the more esoteric stuff, such as divination, crystals and the like, I have yet to read an article by Lonerwolf that has not sounded true and sincere. As for my own teacher… well at this moment all is dead silent. I am challenged by my partner of course, but my inner voice is silent, and I receive no guidance/messages/synchronicities from outside either. Eckhart Tolle says that the universe will bring us the experiences we need, and how do we know that this or that experience is the one we need? Because it is the one we’re having right now, Tolle says. A tad frustrating that, since I cannot discern, conceptually nor emotionally what the lesson is, that is contained in the life experience I am having. It is a bit like Oscar Wilde says: “Experience is a harsh teacher: it gives the test first, and the lesson afterwards”. To me it feels a bit like: life gives me a test, I fail the test, but I get no info on what it is that I had to do differently.
[Sigh]. Well, keep plodding on, I suppose. Perhaps one day the inner resistance will erode and something will shift. It is just that after six months of self-inquiry, study and daily meditation, not even a hint of progress is apparent. A bit disheartening that.
Rik
Thank you Rik for your kind words, I’m happy to hear you find value in most of what we share. Much of the esoteric stuff comes down to using the right conceptual lens to approach them; divination not as a form of predicting the future but as a mirror into our unconscious and how we interpret the ‘messages’ it’s trying to share, hence the psycho-spiritual approach.
I feel that’s really one of the keys we’ve learned, commitment to one path is something we’re rediscovering this year. There’s a million different guides out there, with a million different truths. But there’s very little communication in between them, ‘comparative studies’ if you will. Eckart Tolle is a teacher of the enlightened path, with elements of psychology. Then there’s the full non-duality teachers, or the Buddhists liberation of samsara methods, or the mystical Christians.
Once one commits to one path, one single ‘living philosophy’, it seems to serve as an anchor or structure that allows us to go deeper, to anchor these truths not just in momentary understandings but in a lived embodied perception of them. All paths share commonalities, some paths are more ’embodied’ as we call it, or human, without bypassing our emotions, our human desires, etc.
In the marketplace that is the spiritual landscape of today, it’s hard to feel progress as we’re building a Frankenstein with borrowed wisdom that we haven’t ‘earned’ as Jung put it, making it dangerous.
Not every teacher knows or feels the same way we do. As they range on differing levels of form, ability, style, and experience.
Some are highly advanced intellectually and personally here to engage in higher practice then move on to higher Spirit dimensions.
While others take a while but become full of divine light and love, and as you say become vehicles or vessels of pure compassion to their devotees while they are in the body (or human form).
So some short stay visits to Gurus are for correcting elements of interest or curiosity in ourselves along the way or for pure investigation of one part of the populous are engaging themselves in understanding themselves or the new intentions they seek for a better world.
It’s the same principle as growing up. We need our parents for the early stages of development, then our teachers and higher school educators later on. Each one has elements to give at each stage, some good, some crappy, and not so helpful until we reach a stage of thinking and acting on behalf of our own selves. Knowing when to step in and learn and when to disregard them as irrelevant, greedy for power fame, or political gain.
So through discernment of good from bad or crappy teachers, we can select them or not, even learning what is undesirable from some of the crappy ones, as well as defining the right moves of how much education we wish to engage in with those that are Mystics or divine Sages or just reincarnated beings with Soulfulness and love imparting pure knowledge and love from very humble surroundings.
Conclusion
It is a veritable divine feast these days out there, so be careful whom you sit down to dine with as they may not all enjoy your style and dining habits and may wish to take your mind and emotions for a ride for their own gain and benefits. So be very selective and only dine with those that light the fire within you and meld well with your vibrations.
NAMASTE
Thank you John, I appreciate your wise observations.
I am so lucky to have found Amma and to have received her Darshan. She is the most beautiful spiritual teacher who has planted a seed of spirituality within me, which has slowly grown over the years.
Amma is an inspiration to many, we need more sources of direct connection to the heart like her.
Very good article! Thanks
Thank you Guz, I’m glad you liked it!
Beautiful.
I appreciate that lovely :)
Profound wisdom shared in this article…
This article describes my experiences…..
Thank you Norm :)
I am having an amazing journey I’m not perfect but I’m aiming for as close as I can get. Your insight has helped me alot. I’m being guided to give out info. Not sure where I’m headed but it’s magical and mysterious so far. Sharing epiphanies as I find them.
That’s great Rachel, I hope this path is guiding you toward what you seek.
I Bless the day I came accros Lonerwolf. This in particular speaks directly to me at this point in time.
I am grateful for this piece. Thank you so much Mateo Sol.
I’m gladened our work can be of service at the right time for each of you, thank you Anita :)
It’s true, the guide will find you. During my spiritual emergency back in 2012, I was drawn to my guide even though I had never heard of him. Whenever I see him, I am lost in him and can’t focus on his words. When I try to speak, it is as if I’ve lost my tongue. He has “cleaned” me up (spiritually) so many times and in so many ways since then.
Such is the path of Bhakti Yoga, I’m happy to hear you’ve found guidance that’s serving :)
There is not two. There is one. One consciousness and every one is a manifestation of same consciousness. Teacher and student both are same. Who is the teacher, is the student too. The power of believe originates from the consciousness. Suppose ABC is a student and XYZ is a teacher. Both are derived from the same consciousness. ABC is ready to believe on someone and he needs someone to on whom he can develop the full faith and believe. The criteria, ABC kept here who can fill the divine love in his heart. Who can take him close to love. Who can make him to realize taste of silence, peace and self. Then ABC keep his believe on him. If XYZ dose these for ABC then XYZ can be a trustworthy. Now XYZ doesn’t do anything to prove himself and also he finds those ABCs, who are in the genuine search of truth. A genuine search originates from the mind who are more closer to consciousness. No teacher exists without any student. Student who make someone a teacher. A full hearten believe can evaporate all possible egos and make a student to surrender for his master. Due to complete surrender to someone ego will go and the hurdle for truth will also go. Now you are ready to meet your self. All of the activities are performed by one consciousness, and God can not be other than the consciousness. It’s God who listen the knowledge being student ABC and telling the knowledge being a teacher XYZ. Who is guru…He is student too..He is The one..GOD..
Thanks Alok for your insights.
While why you’re saying may be true at an absolute level, that you can’t be a teacher without students and you can’t be a student without a teacher, they both ‘mutually arise’, I do feel there’s a lot of danger in such blanket beliefs.
Unless you perceive the world already in such a way, in which case, a teacher wouldn’t be necessary as you’ve attained the highest states; being unable to see the lack of division between yourself, as a student, and your teacher can lead to all kinds of dangerous entanglements.
This is especially so when the teacher is not fully realized themselves and is using their position in a abusive way. I try to refrain from such mental/conceptual/philosophical non-dual knowledge unless I have integrated it into my own being.
After many, many years following Teacher/Guru Prem Rawat aka Maharaji, many of these followers are now suffering from Narcissistic Abuse Syndrome. A Psycholigist also recently told a friend “you’d be surprised how many followers are now clients suffering from Narcissistic abuse”. Prem Rawat said for years “Dedicate your life to me and I will bring you peace”. I haven’t met one devotee that demonstrates this. One needs to be very careful when looking/trusting/searching/ for spiritual teachers that you’re not providing a Malignant Narcissist Teacher with “Narcissistic supply” by being their devotee/student. Some Teachers/Gurus are so good at enslaving and brainwashing the student/interested aspirant, that the students end up many years later realizing they’ve been conned/hoodwinked & taken advantage of by Predatory Narcissistic followers & the Teacher. Clue: Common sense & critical thinking is crucial in searching/evaluating a Teacher/guru, despite it being frowned upon by a Predatory Narcissistic spiritual Teacher. Please, choose/search wisely !!!
Maharaji is another one of those teachers that fails to pass the signs of true guidance provided by Khayr. It’s also a great example of the type of students that he attracted, when a student feels their own inner peace can come from another person’s actions; it’s a recipe for disaster.
Entering such a teacher student relation dynamic always should come with the preface that you must be wise enough to choose your teacher to begin with. It’s a cycle that the poorly developed student will attract a poorly developed teacher full of gimmicks and need for power, a well developed student will be aware of this dynamic, so will attract a teacher that isn’t interested in such trifle games. As mentioned, the teachers we choose are a reflection of ourselves and what we need to learn at that time in our maturation.
Well said, Don Mateo Sol. It’s such a shame that vulnerable people have been and are still being exploited by him. He is now targeting Prisoners in Gaols around the world to attend his “Peace Education Program”. They, like many “hippies” of the ’70’s who follow him are vulnerable. Most men who started following him in the ’70’s have lost their homes, inheritances etc & now have no money (after giving all to him) to support themselves. Prem Rawat is now also targeting high profile government officials in Italy, Asia, Africa & people with a lot of money. I heard he’s working on targeting children next. There should be a law against this predatory behaviour (& pysicophants who help him). It’s all very well to think seekers of the truth attract a Teacher who is at the same evolved level, but it dismisses those who are vulnerable and trusting. Sad !!
Sol, dear one, i would also like to ask: I think of myself as a developing soul, one that is ready to learn and i most definatly go through hard things in my day to day life, also i have made it a habbit to learn something from almost everything (if not everything) i go through. I know that I am a person who is willing to learn, and i have the most amazing emotional- mental- spiritual teacher (her name is Sara) but i keep finding out through my practice that i am not as spiritual as i think i am (maybe its just my soul revealing my ego to me. Actually, yeah , that makes scense). Everytime i discover i have a huge amount of ego i feel so disappointed, and than i ask myself “Maybe im not as developed as i think of myself?”… It makes me feel like i have not really developed in my spiritual path and that im only SAYING to myself I have (developed). But actually now that i think of this, it makes me think that in those moments i discover that, there are two voices that cant work together which are the Ego and the Soul, and at these moments i hear two stories at once: one – the ego that is telling me there is something i need to achieve (when maybe there really isnt), and the soul that is telling me- Look, Harel, loved one… see that ??? Thats the ego which is telling you false stories, and im here to reveal its lie…
I think i have just answered my own question but will love to get your opinion or shall i say prespective on this issue!
Thank you dear one, i love you very much!
Harel
You have answered your own question dear friend, you’ve listened to your Souls lesson.’
What you describe is the ”spiritual ego”, anything we approach in life, we do so through the ego and the ego love’s making up bigger and wider identities.
There’s nothing wrong with that, the ego is necessary for practical function and daily life. The problem arises when we are centered in the ego, we are ego-centric rather than Soul-centric.
That second voice you hear is the awareness of the Soul of what is ego is trying to do. The Soul’s mission is to create a space, a space silent enough for your awareness and understanding of the ego’s intentions. When that happens, it’s like the Wizard of Oz unveiling of the curtain; we see through the lie, we can then choose to act from a centered place instead of reacting from the ego’s need for importance.
Dear Sol, you are such a magnificant soul and i love you so much!
I agree with what you wrote and it needs a little time to be digested lol.
I love what you write.
This thread made me cry. This is a difficult journey and this resonated so much. All of it.
Love to both of you, Harel and Mateo.
Sol, my love, you reveal a most precious soul on your writings… Youve helped me alot , thank you! Harel
I’m joyful to hear that dear friend!
Last night I said to myself that I’m beyond help, that I will never be at peace with myself, that this spiritual journey that I think I’m walking is just a fairytale made by my broken mind. I even think it would be better if I lived in a mental hospital, so I could be free to be me and everyone else would simply see me as a crazy person.
It’s really bitter, bitter thought, I know. And I am that bitter right now.
I don’t know, I just gave up. I took back my trust from everyone, including my teacher. Then this morning I read this article.
I really don’t know what to say.
accepting how you feel without shame or blame is paramount to one day moving past where you are now. I was in and out of psych hospitals for two years, feeling very much the same way. i had no idea what was wrong with me, and what a ‘dark night of the soul’ was, but i found out, and i survived, and I can tell you that my trust is NOT in human beings, because we are ALL perfectly imperfect but in UNIVERSE/source/god/dess, that whatever happens to me as I set LOVE as my northstar, is meant to happen and to teach me. I trust in THAT and THAT alone. Hugging you, you are NOT alone.
Thank you, Shanti.
you are so welcome Ika. there are people who care. just so you know. love = action.
Indeed, you are not alone and you are loved.
You’re are doing well in your Path Ika.
Your experience through this ordeal is of utter frustration and distraught, but to me all those are the ingredients necessary to get out through the other side.
The intensity in which you enter the journey will be the intensity in which you leave it, if it doesn’t shake up all your world, everything up until your very roots, it won’t be as effective. It’s a rebirth, and those are the birthing pains!
Our natural tendency will be to escape, to a mental hospital or the mountains or a convent somewhere; so we give up our responsibility to try and help ourselves. We seek surrendering, but it’s the wrong kind.
We should not surrender our responsibility in this journey, we must surrender ourselves, thoughts, our desires, our avoidance of pain. Only then will we be free of it all.
Thank you, Sol.