Brutal Paradoxes For Truth Seekers Who Want Freedom Without The Pain Of Getting There

You think awakening will save your life? Think again…

Spiritual seekers love to fantasize about enlightenment while keeping their comfortable existence intact. Nothing could be further from truth. What nobody tells you about waking up is that it requires complete destruction of everything you think you are.

Picture a caterpillar entering its cocoon, thinking it’s just taking a quick nap before emerging slightly improved. No warning that its entire body must liquefy, dissolve into primordial goo, and reconstruct itself from scratch. The caterpillar doesn’t know it’s signing up for suicide. Neither do you when you start this journey. Your idea of “spiritual growth” involves adding wisdom to your existing self, not watching that self get fed into a cosmic wood chipper.

The most authentically “spiritual” act looks like pure selfishness to everyone around you. When you stop playing your assigned role in their movie, you become the villain. Your mother thinks you’ve joined a cult. Your friends think you’ve lost your mind. Your partner might leave. Good.

The paradox stares you in the face: the only way to save your life is to destroy it…

…and you’ll have to make that choice alone.

The Asshole Awakening

You must become temporarily insufferable to become genuinely authentic…