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“Returning Home”

Writer: pvdbovenkamp
pvdbovenkamp
Jan 10
1 min read

There is a moment after awakening that few people speak about.


Not because it’s unimportant — but because it’s quiet.

After the insights.

After the symbols light up.

After the mind cracks open and everything suddenly means something.


There comes a phase that doesn’t feel like expansion at all.


It feels like… coming home.


Not the dramatic kind.

No fireworks.

No revelations every hour.

Just a subtle shift where the nervous system says:

“I think we can live here now.”


This phase doesn’t chase truth anymore.

It doesn’t try to explain the mystery.

It doesn’t need to convince anyone — not even itself.


Some mysteries don’t need explaining.

They just are.


And strangely, that’s when life starts to feel more real again.


You still notice patterns.

You still sense depth.

You still remember.


But you no longer need to do anything with it.


Returning home is not going back to who you were.

It’s learning to inhabit who you are — without effort.


It’s eating, sleeping, laughing, grieving.

It’s taking care of your body not because it’s spiritual, but because it carried you through everything.


It’s realizing that awakening wasn’t the destination.


It was the door.


And home was always ordinary.


This phase doesn’t ask you to rise higher.

It asks you to stay.


To live.

To participate.

To let meaning come and go without gripping it.


Returning home isn’t glamorous.

But it’s honest.


And it’s where life actually happens.


Much love & light 💛🙏🏼

 
 
 

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