(At least the mundane one.)
I’m 13 years old. I’m at the bus station in Salamanca. I put my hand in a machine like the one in the movie Big. I get a little piece of paper that says: “You will have an interesting life, but you will be poor.” 🙁
I take the bus with the Boys Scouts to celebrate the Scouts of Europe meeting in Bosnia Herzegovina. When I get there, the war breaks out, and I lose my wallet with the money my parents gave me.
I look at the little piece of paper, and I say f*ck 🙂
My life has been like that since then, continuously coming and going from hell.
Until I hit rock bottom by living Fast & Furious.
I was reborn from my ashes, and my life was changing for the better: 1st, purging myself and 2nd stabilizing myself.
But the process led me to live a mundane life that my former friends would call unsexy.
And all those who start on the spiritual path go through the same thing for three reasons.
1. Attracting what you want implies repelling everything else.
When you awaken to evolve, you vibrate at a different frequency. And that makes you attract all kinds of serendipities that heal your life but repel your friends.
You know what friends I mean, the good old boys from the bar, the gang of folks you used to love and be part of.
I remember the last time I talked to my group of friends; it was in the Whatsapp group; they invited me to go to the casino to play poker; I told them I couldn’t because I had to get up early to go to the mountain, one of them wrote me “You used to be cool, man. Now you suck.”
Still hurt.
Lesson: the more awakened your consciousness is, the more it attracts what it needs to evolve, and that means repelling everything that blocks your spiritual path, even if that rocks are your friends 🙁
2. Everyone thinks you are crazy.
When you wake up spiritually, you do many things that indirectly lead to a healthier life and, consequently, a much clearer brain.
Yoga, meditation, eating more vegetables than meat, cold showers, and walking barefoot in the grass will make you look crazy, but they will make you saner than most.
And then you discover to your horror, that it is a society that is crazy, not you.
Think about this,
- Eating salad is less sexy than eating burgers.
- Drinking water is less sexy than drinking sugary sodas.
- Exercising every day is less sexy than playing video games.
- Practicing meditation is less sexy than watching Netflix.
- Going to church, the ashram, or the forest is less sexy than getting drunk at the bar.
Lesson: Hell has more fans than Heaven because there are more fun and special effects, but you prefer Heaven, your peace of mind. And that’s unsexy but works.
3. Your brain starts working again.
You can’t do crazy things anymore to look cool when you know that those things are hurting your soul and brain. And that makes you unsexy for those who don’t want to evolve.
I love this quote from Dr. Amen, “Your brain is the organ of intelligence, character, and every single decision you make. And when your brain works right, you work right. And when your brain is not right, you are sadder, sicker, poorer: less successful.”
I love it because the only conclusion is that real success is unsexy to the majority.
Because you don’t damage your brain doing all the sh*t you used to do, like drinking, smoking, or f*cking with the first stranger you look at the bar.
And for many people who don’t do it is being a loser.
Yeah, the world is mad 🙂
That’s why they say the road to the top is so lonely. Because most don’t make it, most stay in their unhealthy but sexy lives. And only a few dare to climb the mountain of success, which is economical and spiritual.
Lesson: You are not mad. You are on the right way. Even if you feel your life is less sexy, boring, and lonely sometimes, spiritual success is like a lonely climb up the mountain.
I’ll see you at the top.
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