Awakening isn't rising up to some superior level of understanding and being better than others. It is a groaning passage of pain as you become ever more humbled by growing awareness of how totally clueless you are about the world.
Agreed@martingeddes. Awakening is feeling/sensing a crack in our personal thought paradigm and being willing to apply the pressure necessary to completely fracture and bust open the glass ceiling. It's an exhausting exercise - mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
