Every self-achievement in the journey is to be shared
The spiritual journey is a journey that can be performed only in isolation and silence. In these conditions you are confronted with all your suppressed fears. What suppresses fear is the noise. The more noise we have from outside the more the fear and the love are suppressed because they reside inside. Noise comes from outside and suppresses the voices of the inner world, which is the loud voice of fear and the dimmer voice of love.
A true spiritual journey is a journey inside. It is a journey that isolates all outside noise that prevents the inside voices to be heard. You don't have to do a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela or around Mt. Kailash of the Himalayas. But you have to be advancing alone. Even if a master is with you, he is not there to keep you company and distract you, but to guide you to paths and questions that will help you find the Truth on your own. In both cases the spiritual journey is a journey of isolation.
But the value of life and spirituality does not lie in isolation. The challenge resides in the interaction and communication with the others. This gift is only achieved while on earth and in human form.
The goal of the spiritual journey is the discovery and the communication with one's self. But once this virtue is gained then selfishness has to be transformed to selflessness. Many voyagers of this journey get so excited with their spiritual discoveries that keep on delving deeper and deeper only to understand that the Truth has an unlimited depth, there is no bottom. Becoming greedy in this search is as wrong as trying to learn all the knowledge of a science. This is impossible. Learning has to be followed by applying, then followed by further learning in a continuously evolving process, a process of becoming.
Having performed the spiritual journey you appreciate the love of the others but you are not addicted to it. You appreciate the food but you are addicted to it. Thus you do not hide the truth in order to gain their love. You are what you are and this satisfies you. If this does not satisfy the others then they will try to change you but seeing that this is impossible, they will slowly drift away. You will lose many of your initial friends, you might even lose members of your family, but be sure that you will not lose positive people that have fought their own fears in their way to Truth.
Thus the goal of the spiritual journey is not only to find and accept yourself. It is to be yourself.even if the others do not approve it. It is to refrain from having a "social face" in order to gain the acceptance of the others. Thus, the spiritual journey is a weapon of Truth, a weapon against the global fake.
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