6 Things I Learned About Life After a Spiritual Awakening

Are you feeling lost in life? Just going through the motions each day? Living a meaningless existence going from paycheck to paycheck? It can feel like there’s no hope. You feel trapped and drained of your spirit.

I’ve been there too, and over the past few years I’ve had a lot of opportunity to reflect on life and figure out how to best go about this human experience. I quit my job, flew to South America to partake in shamanic ceremonies, lived in my car for a year, traveled the world, worked online as a digital nomad, had a spiritual awakening, read 20+ self-help books and consumed countless hours of content online from gurus, entrepreneurs, life coaches, and philosophers.

Luckily I’m single, have very few obligations, am a minimalist, and am extremely open to life, which has allowed me to be an open vessel to new experiences. I don’t hold many opinions. I simply observe and realize that the worldview I create is just that. The less concrete my ideas are, the more I can grow and expand.

And so here is what life has taught me so far:

You can either pursue money relentlessly, or live life as a monk.

Most of us fall somewhere in between these two extremes. And it’s up to you to decide where you want to be…