The Awakened Human

For me, awakening is becoming less mystical with time.

It may simply mean becoming more available to reality.

To feel what is happening in the body.
To notice what a room does to your energy.
To recognise when ambition has become compensation.
To hear what someone is saying beneath their words.
To know when it is time to act, and when it is time to wait.

The awakened human is not someone who has escaped ordinary life.

Quite the opposite.

They are more intimate with it.

More sensitive to the consequences of their choices. More capable of wonder. More comfortable with uncertainty. Less interested in controlling everything.

Perhaps awakening is not about becoming someone special.

Perhaps it is the gradual removal of everything that prevents us from being fully here.