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Enlightenments, Not Enlightenment

By Jack Kornfield — 2018

Awakening is not the same for everyone—even spiritual masters manifest their wisdom differently and took various paths to get there.

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5 Essential Stages of Spiritual Awakening (And 15 Common Symptoms)

Contrary to what most people think, spiritual awakening doesn’t involve a literal “waking up”.

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Lachlan Brown
2020
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Life After a Spiritual Awakening

More and more people are coming forward and sharing their very personal experience of discovering a spiritual world beyond their dreams, beyond what they could have ever imagined.

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Bruce Davis
2014
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Spiritual Awakening: Characteristics of an Awakened Person

An individual encounters many ups and downs during a spiritual journey. The journey is marked with periods of fast growth and other periods when movement towards the goal is much slower.

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Dr. Pran Rangan
2020
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What Is a Spiritual Awakening?

A spiritual awakening is the dissolving of the illusion that you are separate from oneness.

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Spiritual Awakening Process
2019
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10 Signs of Spiritual Enlightenment & Awakening

It’s a sign of the times that the word “awakened” has made it into the urban dictionary, where it is defined as “spiritually aware of the universe and [its] direct metaphysical connection to one’s own being and the connection it has to all life forces.”

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Tamara Lechner
2020
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21 Signs You're Going Through a Spiritual Awakening + How to Embrace It

You've probably heard talk of spiritual awakenings and how they can lead to more enlightened (dare we say, "woke") people. But what does a spiritual awakening really mean, and what does it actually entail?

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Sarah Regan
2021
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What's the Use of Suffering

The biggest mistake we can make, according to the Buddha, is to discount or minimize our suffering. Why? Because it is the fiery gate through which we must pass to engage the spiritual path.

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Reginald A. Ray
2001
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Spiritual Growth and Loneliness

I’ve recently had conversation about loneliness and how it relates to spiritual growth. All our lives we are conditioned to seek external validation to give us our sense of self-worth.

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Kerry Davey
2017
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My Awakening: Spiritual Teacher Adyashanti Describes the Day He Awakened

Before I had my final awakening years ago, I was crazed for enlightenment. You have to be a little crazy to seriously study Zen. My teacher used to say, “Only the crazy ones stay.”

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Adyashanti
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The Taboo of Enlightenment

One of the most popular Buddhist teachers in the San Francisco Bay Area these days is not a Tibetan lama or a traditional Zen master but an unconventional, an American-born lay teacher named Adyashanti.

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Stephan Bodian
2004
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