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.
Groaning is a perfect word to use for the process we are undergoing. It is a palpable experience combined with holding my head, staring out the window, sighing, pacing about and a myriad of other symptons associated with awakening to the world truths.
