Presence is Not a Race: Embracing Your Human Experience

𝑨𝒍𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒚 𝑯𝒆𝒓𝒆 In presence. There is no race. Nowhere to get to. Nowhere to ascend. Nothing to attain. Nothing to achieve. Nothing to transcend. You are not racing anyone. And you are not racing yourself either. There is no finish line hiding somewhere in the future. The path isn’t about climbing higher. It is not a ladder. It’s not about earning enlightenment. No levels to unlock. No stages to conquer. No spiritual trophies to collect. You are not missing a portal. You are not closer to “God” because you meditate longer. There is no final badge called enlightenment. It is not a competition. It is not a self-improvement marathon. Awakening is not an upgrade. It is not accumulation. You do not rise above being human. You are already here. In your mess. In your sadness. In your anxiety. In your anger. In your depression. In your confusion. In your joy. In your clarity. There is no higher version waiting. There is only you. Here. Now. Stop trying to outrun yourself. You are either present… or you’re chasing something. And chasing is still ego in spiritual clothing. Nothing about you disqualifies you from being whole. You do not have to purify yourself to belong here. You do not need to fix yourself to be worthy. You do not need to eliminate anxiety to be whole. You do not need to purge anger to be spiritual. You do not need to destroy your ego to be real. You do not have to clear every trauma before you are allowed to breathe. Nothing is wrong with you because you are struggling. You’re not missing anything. You’re not off track. You are not failing your awakening. No one is ahead of you. You are not outpaced by life. It is not a hierarchy. It is not a spiritual competition. Your timing is your own. The idea that you must ascend, transcend, or attain something is the very tension exhausting you. You are already here. That is it. It is remembering. Becoming honest with yourself. And remembering does not require force. It requires stillness. You are not broken because you are struggling. You are not less evolved because you are tired. You are not blocked because you are angry. You are human. And that is not an obstacle. It is the path. The real question is: Are you here? Or are you chasing an idea of yourself? And the irony is… the moment the chasing stops, that fullness you were laughing about earlier is simply there. Ordinary. Steady. Not impressed with itself. It doesn’t announce. It doesn’t attain. It doesn’t need a label. Just being. A living human being, fully present in itself. That’s it. -me

This reflective piece argues against the idea of a spiritual race or a future state of enlightenment, emphasizing that true presence involves embracing all aspects of the human experience – messiness, sadness, joy, and confusion – without judgment. It suggests that the constant striving for self-improvement or spiritual attainment is ego-driven and that wholeness is not conditional on purity or fixing oneself; instead, it is about recognizing that being fully present as a human being is the path itself.

Yes and then you set in everything and nothing you hold both dualities

@ayna I believe in nonduality & wrote this about that.

Interesting ... I follow the logic though. I actually lean more to triplicity the push/ pull good/bad is obvious but stepping outside of both could be non duality or would that be triplicity aware of both but stepping outside of them?

@pixiestyxunicorn also would love to learn more from your perspective

@ayna Nonduality, from the Sanskrit Advaita, translates to "not two" and refers to the philosophical, spiritual, and experiential understanding that reality is an indivisible, seamless whole, not made of separate parts. It asserts that distinctions like subject/object, self/other, and mind/body are illusory, with all existence arising as a unified field of awareness. I believe that we are not two. Not within & not without. We are not separate. But connected to all that exists. Collective consciousness exists.

i feel what you’re saying, i love it even! but have you ever considered that this existence isn’t the end all be all, and that maybe there was somewhere to be … i get lost in my way of explaining this thought process i frequently have but what if there was more to it than just humanity?

@pixiestyxunicorn thank you for enlightening me. I do more than just believe in collective consciousness I know it to be ever present. I believe the Earth is also conscious. So you're saying that nothing is separate?

@ayna there is no two. Everything. Planets, People, trees, nature, moon, sun, that cup you're drinking from, water. Everything is connected Carl jung (and others) explain duality. Integration. Child self. Shadow self. Etc Then after all of that There comes Non-duality So we are born of love. We die of love. Everything is love.

@rustedroulette yes. We don't die. We become what we always were.. we return to nature I don't believe we ever die. We are just having a human experience.

@pixiestyxunicorn i agree. i believe in a sort of transuniversal interconnectedness.