[A human Being]

Jim Tolles on spiritual realisations and doing the inner work:

'The big spiritual moments tend to be on the scale of 1 to 2%, while the rest is dominated by dedication, discipline, inner work, and surrender. That 98% is vital, and it's why so many people get stuck - they were looking for constant euphoria or revelation, and they ignore the rest of the work. It's like expecting trophies without going to practice or playing one game of football.'

'A lot of spiritual searches are not usually a quest to find oneself - they're more typically a quest to escape oneself. When we sit in the now here, this reality of how much time we spend trying to escape ourselves becomes clear, and the inner work that we need to do begins to arise on its own.'