Self-Realization and Other Awakenings

Truly, he or she is your mirror of how you see
yourself, as well as of your Invisible.
Then one day your Self, drawn by your love and
acceptance of both yourself and your teacher, will
reveal itself totally to you. Not in the small bits and
pieces you have grown used to by practicing self-
inquiry, or self-abidance, or guru-bhakti, but in a full,
complete revelation of tremendous power and
magnitude.
This is not to say there is just one awakening. This
is just one of many awakenings that await the diligent
student of him or herself.
Even Robert had a final awakening just months
before he died. I was not there with him in Sedona,
but I was told this by Mary Skene, who moved to
Sedona from LA, to be with him. The great Zen master
Joshu, said he had 17 great awakenings and thousands
of small ones. So you can never count your journey in
life as completed no matter how finished you feel.
A true guru is an ordinary human being but in a
most extraordinary way, and so are you if only you
could stop to really investigate and to see yourself
without judgment, condemnation, or excessive
narcissism.