The Many Paths: Why Your Journey Is Always the Right One

In my previous blog post, I shared the reasons behind starting this blog—why I feel drawn to share more about my life and the lessons I've learned along the way. This journey has been a long and evolving process, and there are endless topics I could write about. While I’d love to capture everything I’ve come to understand in a single post, that’s obviously not realistic. Instead, I’ll aim to keep these reflections concise and focused.

I also want to be clear: I’m not offering new or groundbreaking revelations. Throughout history, many wise teachers have walked this earth and shared profound truths. What I offer here is simply my personal experience—filtered through my understanding, in my voice.

The Many Paths

Today, I want to talk about the many paths we walk.

There are as many paths as there are people. Some may look similar, others wildly different. But your path is yours alone. People may walk beside you, some for a lifetime, others only briefly—but no one can walk your path for you, just as you cannot walk anyone else’s.

When you come across teachings like these, it’s important to remember that your journey is uniquely yours. Just because your path doesn’t mirror someone else’s doesn’t make it wrong. In fact, the very idea of a "wrong path" comes only from the egoic mind. Even when things don’t seem to make sense, you are always exactly where you need to be. You cannot stray from your path—you can only believe that you have.

To clarify this idea, I want to share a brief personal experience.

For a long time, my primary spiritual practice was shadow work—facing and integrating the hidden parts of myself. During this period, I met people deeply immersed in the teachings of non-duality. (For those unfamiliar, non-duality is the understanding that the apparent separation between self and the world is an illusion, everything is already whole and complete as it is.)

I often spoke with a friend who was already "liberated" (someone who had realized this truth directly.) His insights were profound and stirred something deep within me. Yet, alongside these awakenings, my mind began to believe that I needed to follow his path—to adopt his practices and approach. But no matter how much I tried, I couldn’t force myself to do things his way.

Eventually, I stopped resisting what was already unfolding. I recognized that my path didn’t need to look like his; and that this, too, was perfectly okay. Even the struggle to be "on the right path" was just another illusion created by the mind. Beneath all of it, beneath the doubts, the comparisons, the need to be different—there was a quiet, unshakable peace that had been present the whole time.

Everything was already as it should be. It always had been.

If there’s one thing I hope you take from this, it’s this: trust your path. Even when it doesn’t align with others’ experiences, even when it feels uncertain—it is still your path, and it is always unfolding exactly as it needs to.

Thanks for reading. I’ll be sharing more soon.