The Purpose of Suffering

The longing to return home to yourself becomes a form of suffering during the awakening path. Whatever glimpses of your true nature you experience, increase the desire to live from your core essence permanently.  The enjoyment that you experienced from believing you are a person starts to lose its charm, as you start to access something deeper and more authentic. 

This suffering provides you with the motivation to seek what is true and let go of what is illusory - it is divinely orchestrated. It gives you the courage to keep going. You fall in love with yourself, as pure awareness and everything else pales in comparison.

You simultaneously suffer because the illusion continues to take hold, as well as experience more joy and peace as you access your divine emptiness. The contrast between illusion and reality becomes more obvious and you yearn for the day when the process is complete.

You are accessing the pain of separation and the only cure is liberation. ​​​​True awakening is a one-way journey - what is surrendered can never be reinstated. No new identity will create any sense of satisfaction and leave you with only one option: to surrender all.