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Landmarks of Spiritual Awakening.

Henry Johnson LR
4 min readJul 19, 2019

In today’s world, most of us come to experience tensions between who we want to be and who we are. The more divided our self is, the more significant tormented woes, but this in itself provides a strong urge to live. What is surprising is that some of us come to be disappointed when something happens that we don’t expect. We at times seems to feel pain when we don’t get some things right, or are far behind then the rest that are with dreams. I want to encourage you to never look at the setbacks but sees it as mere landmarks of spiritual awakening.

Never look at age or death as the end of this journey but as landmarks of spiritual awakening. Life is about living in the moment, experiencing the good and evil as it comes. Age and death is part of this beautiful thing we called “life.” Life is simply beautiful, but we must stop shaping our lives around the idea of forever, for there’s no forever. Life stops at the end of the road, while we continuously hope for forever.

Our new technology will not make us whole. No medicine will make us young, and no robotic soul could replace our spirits. The landmarks of spiritual awakening are our reflection of our life and the meaning of it after death. For Dr. King, his were the “dreams.” For Gandhi, “non-violence” was his truth. Indeed it became a spiritual awakening (his spirit living on) after his death, that around the…

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Henry Johnson LR
Henry Johnson LR

Written by Henry Johnson LR

I am a Liberian-born American writer with great ideas to impact lives and leave this world a little better than I found it.

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