Many of us step foot on the path to spiritual enlightenment expecting it to lead us onward and upward, hoping to become something better than we are, and ready to gather all of the important things we need along the way.

What a surprise it is when we eventually realize that this path isn't taking us onward but inward, that we're not gathering things so much as letting them go, and that there was never anything more to aspire to than the truth of what we already are.

Cristen Rodgers