It's befitting to label awakening a blue collar undertaking. Rolling up our sleeves in the nitty-gritty work of preparation is like kneading dough before baking bread. All our travels and travails become a labor of love. They prepare us for a phase of more intense activity.
Then awakening becomes a conscious flame in heart's hearth. There's even less reluctance getting dirt under the nails; anything swept under the carpet gets revealed.
Unfinished business stored in mind's corners emerges, revised and retooled by the heat of a burning heart. Stray thoughts get rounded up and ego-mind starts roaming less far and wide.
Seeing we're all headed for the same corral regardless of spiritual 'advancement' cultivates compassion and connection with others. All are seen to be in the same boat whether their spirituality is a blue or white collar version.
