Mistake number 3: Confusing pleasure with Joy.
Spiritual life can be sexier than vanilla ice cream with KitKat toppings drizzled with caramel syrup.
Spiritual life is more than yoga pants, Tibetan singing bowls, silent meditation retreats, and collecting colored crystals.
To be spiritual is to wake up one day and discover that success is not about having a million dollars, a mansion, and a Ferrari. It is to prepare breakfast without haste, to watch it rain through the window. And drinking your coffee and being grateful for the new day — one of those days with the smell of wet earth.
To be spiritual is to be yourself.
It’s feeling good about being yourself.
Sexy, isn’t it?
But to get to that level of consciousness, highly spiritual people have learned to avoid these three mistakes.
Mistake number 1: Getting used to miracles.
If we went back to the year 1700 and were crowned king of England, it wouldn’t take us a week to want to go back to our 40 square meter apartment and 9 to 5 job.
George I of England was king in those days, and he lived with no heating, air conditioning, internet, or food delivered.
Imagine life without Amazon, Uber, Google, Alexa, and GPS.
Imagine life without electric lights, no toilet… Can you?
Such a world would be like living inside a dystopian apocalyptic horror movie.
Anyone today lives better than the most influential people of antiquity. That’s a fact.
The thing is, most of us have lost the ability to value what we have.
But highly spiritual people still do.
Highly spiritual people always remember that turning on the shower faucet and getting hot water is a miracle.
Highly spiritual people know that technology is the new magic.
Lesson: Normalizing good things prevents us from seeing how good life can be. Amazement and appreciation put the spice back into things. And that makes your life sexier than having a six-pack at forty.
Mistake number 2: Confusing success with happiness.
My grandfather always said, “It’s better to feel fortunate than to achieve a fortune.”
Even if you are struggling.
Highly spiritual people know that it’s better to be in the shit and have a great dream than to be on top and find out that your dream doesn’t make you happy.
Every blessing can turn into a curse and every dream into a nightmare.
Not making ends meet and having the dream of making a million dollars is better than making a million dollars and discovering that even with a million dollars, you cannot fill the emptiness you feel in your chest every morning when you wake up.
For highly spiritual people, dreams are like Schrodinger’s cat: You can’t tell if it’s dead or alive until you open the damn box.
Fulfilling a dream may mean finding the cat dead.
While chasing it, you’re left with the hope that it’s alive (makes you happy).
And the crazy thing about it is that hope becomes energy, the gasoline that drives you to continue another day. And that’s super sexy.
Lesson: if you live long enough, sooner or later, things so strong will happen to you that you will learn to appreciate the peace behind the boredom, the magic of the moment, and the small daily pleasures. But most of all, the value of unfulfilled dreams that keep the flame of your hope alive.
Mistake number 3: Confusing pleasure with Joy
The road to hell is full of worldly pleasures. And highly spiritual people know this because they have already traveled it and hit rock bottom.
After burning in their hells and rising from the ashes, they have freed themselves from the chains that prevented them from manifesting their true essence.
The true joy of life lies in flowing harmoniously with existence. And for this, you have to be free and accept the authenticity of the infinite self, leaving the deception of the changing and transient ego.
To be free, you do not have to use the law of attraction but manifest your true essence to attract what you deserve as a child of the stars and repel all that harms you.
And highly spiritual people know this.
They don’t want the Lambo, they don’t want the house in the Bahamas, and they don’t want to spend their lives in Maui. They know that the kingdom of heaven, the natural paradise on earth, is within their being, in their heart.
And that any paradise they go to will be hell if their insides are on fire.
Lesson: The joy of living begins and ends in you; you are the alpha and omega of your life. You just have to realize it 🙂
A virtual hug
AG
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