What does a spiritual journey that is getting somewhere look like?
What do you even know about spiritual journey?
Spiritual journey for lack of a better word is a deeply intimate meeting with onerself. God, divine, spiritual don't have to come into it.
It is a very open hearted welcoming of oneself, warts and all.
The warts are the unwanted part. Most seekers scared for life to see the ugliness, warts, nasty agendas within themselves. Why so? It can only mean that the seeker is identified with being beautiful. divine, sublime and in fear and rejection of the opposite.
Existence embodies the spectrum coverage from abysmal ugliness to sublime beauty and everything in between. There is only a limited spectrum available to experience in human form. the grandeur exceedes the most sublime we can experience and the abysmal alos must exceed the most depraves we can feel. The highest of heavens and lowest of hells. all present and actively playing with in the consciousnes.
When you start choosing plarities you remain incomplete.
Only by embracing all, you become whole. That is the destiny of a braveheart who holds the ground and stay keem for the greatest adventure of self-discovery
So, The most obvious tell tale sign is that It starts to look and feel nothing like a 'spiritual journey'. Ordinary life becomes the new centre
You get progressively more engaged in their ordinary day to day life.
In other words, you start to settle down in your life, just the way you are. The centre of remeberance shifts from self improvement to allowing
Even more important than that, is that you become dispassionate.
the guru will throw you back with to your own inner drama. If you happen to be becoming disspassionate about personal glory, you will see no glory or shame in your personal drama.
A mature mind will have nothing but heartfelt gratitude for exposure of what is running you from the basement
If mind is passionate about good, healing, holy, spiritual...it is a juvenile mind. Such a mind only accepts good and rejects bad.
Whole?
No.
Mind only matures when it accepts both, but is not identified with either. it has attained to both and transcended both.
Sticking at polarites is the forte of conditioned mind. It simply cannot allow what it does not approve of because of shame, guilt, judgement, fear....
99% seekesr are stumped at this step.
The simplest truth that you are here to find you ends up as a long winded, futile 'spiritual journey' simply because you are afraid of you and in constant running-away-from-yourself mode.
No-mind plays on, beyond perceived good and bad.
A mind ready for such maturity is rare. Bog standard seekers everywhere! One or two ready for oneself
I pray that you stand your ground and become a braveheart. then you will know you and that will quench you forever!