How To Survive Spiritual Crisis

“What is to give light must endure burning.” – Victor Frankl

In the game of human development, one of the clearest signs of progress is crisis.
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If it feels like your world is melting, everything you used to care about feels hollow, everything you used to believe now seems like kindergarten nonsense, and life itself feels empty and meaningless — lucky you:
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You’re on the right path.
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(how’s that for a Monday morning pick-me-up?)
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If that doesn’t make sense to you, ask yourself:
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​How could it be any other way?
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We’re born into the world with no idea who, what, or where we are…
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With nobody to teach us but a handful of others who just barely got here before we did.
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So we grow up believing what everyone else believes, chasing goals everyone else chases, thinking what everyone else thinks, and following the trail most-travelled, because, honestly — what else would we do?
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Nobody even tells us we have an option, because nobody knows options exist.
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And so our lives lock onto the well-grooved tracks of social conditioning, destined to coast smoothly from cradle to grave without so much as a bathroom break…
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…Until one day, a faint voice inside of us starts asking the question nobody thought to ask:
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​“What in the fxck is going on here?”
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That’s when crisis hits:
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When we finally begin asking deeper questions, demanding answers, and striking out into the great unknown to find them.
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As we hack and cut and bushwhack our own path, we drop old, shallow goals like empty baggage, in search of something higher.
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But those goals gave our lives a sense of meaning, and without them, our life — and life itself — feels meaningless.
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​Empty.
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But we continue to empty ourselves out, letting go of the beliefs and attachments that used to shape our world…
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…Until our world is empty of everything that was dumped on us before we were old enough to stop it.
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Our lives become a clean slate, a fresh canvas — an open space where we can finally create whatever is meaningful to us.
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​That’s when our real life begins.
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To those in crisis, I salute you.
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What you’re looking for — true, genuine, authentic meaning — exists.
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It exists.
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It is real, and the process you’re going through right now is the only way to find it.
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You must empty out before you can feel truly full.
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Godspeed.
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– T
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​P.S. I just did something I thought I would never do:
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​I started writing on X.
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This should be interesting…