The spiritual journey is a series of plateaus. We scale some heights in a feat caused by challenge or by sudden inspiration, or gradually, coming to awareness of our lives and our minds, or souls or spirits now different, changed, improved. A talk with a teacher gives us new insight. We become fed up with some life-long, habitual bad thinking. We make that one mistake that reveals so much. Or, blessed, we hear something somehow, in a still small voice that changes our outlook, our minds, our selves. And we remain in this changed state for a time, realizing we are new and improved, but thinking: This is the real me! I will be like this forever! And then, sometimes sooner, sometimes later, we have another, equally revealing experience and there is another cliff we have scaled, revealing new perspectives, new ideas. When we realize we’re in a new place we’ll have been there for some time.
Nick Hilton - Reflections 