Henry Shukman

which is a beautiful thing as well.

But what happens is that the more we're working on the gradual developmental side, the more open we become to maybe having glimpses of the awakening side.

The more we might glimpse the awakening side, the more space there is to work with the gradual, I call it healing side.

And somehow I think this is a really helpful metaphor

It's not a single journey to the destination.

In a certain way, all the old traditions are right, the destination's here all along.

But to actually glimpse it and integrate it, we probably need to do all this gradual work basically on ourselves and on our relationships and on our trauma, on our history, on our collective trauma, on our ancestral trauma, let alone, of course, our personal trauma.