The Myth of Being "Awakened"

Everyone wants to be “awake.”

But maybe awakening isn’t a state you reach. Maybe it’s a rhythm you return to.

A continual remembering. A soft opening that happens, then closes, then happens again.

You were never asleep. You only dreamed you were.

The distinction between awakening and awakened is none at all.

You are always both: unfolding and complete.

We like to think of awakening as a summit, a point of arrival, a certificate of enlightenment. But those who chase it never reach it, because the seeker and the sought are one and the same.

Is awakening a gradient, a percentage, a final exam to pass? Or is it the moment you realize you were never separate from the truth to begin with?

Both are true. You can be asleep and awake, divine and human, lost and found, all at once.

You will move through cycles of remembering and forgetting, rising and resting, seeing and closing your eyes again.

The point isn’t to stay awake forever. It’s to keep remembering who you are, again and again, in every moment that calls you back to sleep.