16/05/2025
Introspection is important in every walk of life. It's said that knowledge is power, but it's useless if you don't let it integrate into your being and allow that lesson to truly land.
The spiritual ego⦠wow, itās one of the hardest things to recognize in ourselves. Not because weāre not aware, but because ego is such a shapeshifter. When weāre not paying attention, it doesnāt have to try very hard. But the moment we do start waking up? It gets clever. It starts hiding in places weād never expectāand one of its favorite places to hide is in our spiritual journey.
Itās sneaky. It shows up as the one whoās always watching another video, reading the next book, absorbing more and more āspiritual truths.ā And donāt get me wrongāthereās beauty in curiosity and growth. But what Iāve seen (in myself and in others) is this pattern where we start chasing knowledge because it makes us feel expanded⦠like weāre progressing. And sometimes, that feeling of expansion isnāt our soul evolvingāitās our ego inflating.
We start mistaking intellectual understanding for actual awareness. For true integration. And itās not the same thing. We can gather all the wisdom in the world, but if weāre not letting it settle into our bones, into our choices, into how we show upāthen itās just more information sitting on a shelf.
Real growth doesnāt usually announce itself. It happens quietly. In our stillness. In our willingness to sit with discomfort, to let go, to be. The ego doesnāt love those spaces, because thereās nothing for it to perform or prove in them. But thatās where the real transformation lives.
So, if this hits something in you the way it did in meāmaybe just take a breath. No shame, no judgment. Just an invitation to pause the seeking⦠and let what you already know truly become you.
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Love y'all,
- Lori š©·