Witnessing the Perfect Present

Spiritual awakening can occur gradually or instantaneously.  It really depends on the individual's experience.  Once it happens it is like seeing your life more intimately than you have ever felt it before while at the same time, having a sense of being outside your experience as an impartial observer.  Once the two states of being combine and you are both intensely in the present moment and outside of time witnessing the moment, real growth begins.