Self-Realization and Other Awakenings

identify with everything as me, then there are no
problems.
As I have said many times before, spirituality is
exploring all the dimensions of self, and the analogy I
used is that the self is as a hundred room mansion, and
we need to enter and explore every room so we feel
comfortable in any part of the house, even those parts
that we have not so far owned, such as rejected anger,
feelings of helplessness and hopelessness, depression,
and jealousy, as well as the entire “apparently
external” world.
Through the spiritual “work” process, through
internal investigation and abiding in the ‘I Am’, and
eventually abiding in the Self, we experience all the
dimensions and aspects of the Self, all the hidden
rooms and closets, the basements and the attics, and
the penthouses of our inner and outer mansion. We
own it all, and then we are able to pass easily from
room to room, emotion to emotion, apparent problem
to apparent problem, from depression to bliss, from
physical pain to sleep, from sorrow to deepest love, all
without batting an eye, totally identified with
whatever arises, or with the emptiness that contains
it, or with both, or with neither, because it is all us,
me, ‘I Am’; nothing hostile, nothing threatening, just
me.