Self-Realization and Other Awakenings

love for everything and everyone, and a profound
sense of humility, and a compassion for all living
things.
Then Robert proposes, “What if we work on
developing this compassion, this love, this humility
here and now before the awakening experience?”
This would be an additional practice to self inquiry,
of looking into that sense of ‘I Am’: gradually
becoming that sense of ‘I Am’ in meditation and in
everyday self-witnessing, self-awareness.
He says awakening will come more quickly this
way. In a sense, he’s saying “Fake it till you make it."
That is, grab onto the lasting after-effects of the
awakening experience.
Deliberately cultivate being kind, develop love for
another, feel love for another very deeply and totally
lose ourselves in love. Every day we should cultivate
increasing compassion for all living things, for hungry
animals, starving babies, towards trees, insects and
even rocks and a running river. And at the same time,
we lose our arrogance, wanting constantly to bow in
complete surrender to one's beloveds, whomever or
whatever they may be. We drop to our knees in
humility. We touch the feet of our beloved. We
become like dust in service to those we love. And by
such deliberate cultivation of love, humility,