If you knew the truth, you wouldn't underestimate yourself as you do right now. Sometimes, you feel frustrated for not seeing tangible results of your spiritual efforts and evolution. But, you shouldn't feel that way at all, because you really make progress.
There are many indicators along the path to spiritual awakening, and what you are doing in this moment reading this, or writing inspired ideas, is one of them. Not everyone is at this stage yet and, therefor, has the hability to do it.
Have you noticed the logic you develop when discussing and explaining these kind of ideas to others? You are quiet at ease when you do so, and words flow easily from your mouth without any effort on your part.
Very often, without even thinking about it, just a pencil in your hand and ideas flow on the paper wherever you are; for example in your bed sleeping, in the bathroom or at the aiport waiting for a flight, etc. Haven't you noticed that?
Another indicator is the feedback you get from people around you (parents, family, friends, relatives, colleagues...). How do they react? What do you hear from them? Remember that there is no such thing as accident or chance. The feedback you get from these people is real. They tell you the truth about you!
Others and everything you perceive outside do not really exist as separate from you, don't forget it. They are but mere projections and reflections of your inner world on the giant screen of the universe all around you.
There are four stages in the butterfly life cycle: the egg, the larva (caterpillar), the pupa (chrysalis) and the adult butterfly. If you compare this life cycle with your own spiritual evolution, by yourself, you will be able to determine exactly what your current awakening stage is.
As a reminder, coming from the egg (first stage), the larva or Caterpillar (second stage) appears. The only thing it does is to eat again and again, all day long. This stage is not very long in general. But often, it depends on the type of butterfly.
Then, there is the third stage, in which caterpillar forms itself into pupa or chrysalis. This is what is said about this stage in thebutterflysite.com :
"The pupa stage is one of the coolest stages of a butterfly’s life. As soon as a caterpillar is done growing and they have reached their full length/weight, they form themselves into a pupa, also known as a chrysalis. From the outside of the pupa, it looks as if the caterpillar may just be resting, but the inside is where all of the action is. Inside of the pupa, the caterpillar is rapidly changing.
Now, as most people know, caterpillars are short, stubby and have no wings at all. Within the chrysalis the old body parts of the caterpillar are undergoing a remarkable transformation, called ‘metamorphosis,’ to become the beautiful parts that make up the butterfly that will emerge. Tissue, limbs and organs of a caterpillar have all been changed by the time the pupa is finished, and is now ready for the final stage of a butterfly’s life cycle".
In the spiritual awakening process, people find themselves either in the first, the second, the third, or the fourth stage of the cycle. But if there is no doubt that lot of people have made real progress in their spiritual evolution, very few, however, have attained the fourth step.
Some of you, for example, are still "eggs" (first stage). That is, spirituality has no interest to them; none. They are totally identified with their body and their mind. Others are in the second stage or Caterpillars. Like a bulimia, they seek all spiritual information imaginable, grasp, read and listen to everything about spirituality on their path. Then, at one point, they are no longer interested at doing all these things again. Of course, from time to time, they can take a book and read it, or listen to a CD about spirituality. But the bulimia to read or listen to whatever comes up is now over.
Thus, after learning from many spiritual teachers through their self development materials (books, websites, audio recordings, newletters...) you may have come one day to the decision to stop everything, and start applying in your life what you've learned so far.
At this stage, you have become a pupa or chrysalis, and are now ready to prepare yourself for the ultimate and most fullfilling experience of your life in this earth, which is to become a butterfly or awaken from your current dream.
If you have taken the decision to stop everything and start working on yourself, it is the sign that you have indeed reached that stage. It is where you are right now regarding your spiritual awakening.
So, be ready, because very soon, the butterfly will emerge from the chrysalis, and fly in total freedom in the sky. When this happens, know that you have awakened, or returned back home in the wholeness of who you really are. By the way, who do you think to be?
Think about it and...
...Stay synchronized.
