It’s not what you ‘think’. IT IS.
- Jolene O'Brien

- Jun 20, 2025
- 2 min read
Updated: Jun 29, 2025

Self-realisation (often referred to as Awakening or Enlightenment) is not about becoming something, fixing something, or reaching some special place or state where you’ve finally ‘made it’.
It’s not about getting rid of anything ~ not even the ego.
What it IS about, is the realisation that you are already whole and completely worthy.
It’s the end of the search for something.
It’s the end of believing there’s something wrong with you or your life.
It’s the end of trying to fix anything, because it’s seen clearly ~ there is nothing to fix. There never was.
Yes, there may still be deepening into your True Nature, but the search comes to an end.
Because you will see through it.
There is nothing to search for. IT IS here. It always was. And it’s a seeing of THAT.
The mind will want to get involved, but thinking is never ~ not now, not ever ~ going to ‘get this’ or figure it out.
Why?
Because it’s the thinking itself that gets seen through.
Thoughts don’t need to stop. Emotions don’t need to go. The human experience doesn’t have to disappear.
We’re not seeking a miraculous change of state or circumstance, nor to walk around in a constant blissed-out state.
And yet ~ the seriousness taken to any of it begins to fade.
There’s a common misconception that I, or any realised being, have reached some kind of superhuman state.
This is not the case.
Yes, things shift ~ especially the sense of fear, neurosis, or the need for things to change. But even with the deepest insight, one can still get caught up from time to time.
That too is part of the experience.
Contrary to popular belief, the “enlightened” being isn’t floating in a permanent state of bliss, disconnected from the human experience.
That is not it.
The mind can’t grasp this ~ but there’s a living in awareness, even as the play of this human life continues.
Sometimes there are parts that aren’t favourable, but they’re fully accepted as part of the flow.
Even the so-called “bliss states” often experienced in this process are not it.
If that’s what you’re chasing, be prepared to chuckle when you see through it!
Nothing will be “known”, yet IT will make perfect sense ~ from within.
Life will still happen.
This body will still need care.
We’ll still raise children, do chores, enjoy hobbies.
We’ll still feel emotions ~ even irritation or frustration may arise.
But the emotions no longer hold the power they once did.
The True Self moves into the foreground, and you are no longer entangled in ego’s control.
Thoughts soften. Emotions quieten. You are no longer at the mercy of them.
Nothing changes… and yet everything changes.
Even the mundane becomes a magical mystery.
Life is simply unfolding, and YOU ~ the Infinite You ~ are completely at peace with what is here now… and with not knowing what comes next.
You won’t think you are there.
You will know ~ unequivocally.
tHere YOU are.
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