Myself

 

Reflection — Yoruba Yogi

Lately I’ve been noticing something deep about spiritual growth. When a person reaches a real spiritual understanding—not the performance kind, but the true inner kind—they stop trying to teach others. They stop trying to prove anything. They move differently.

I’m beginning to see that many people who talk the most, who give the most advice, who try to act like teachers, are actually still searching themselves. They need to feel like they know something. They need to feel important. They need to speak so they don’t have to sit with their own silence.

But my speaking is different. I don’t feel like I’m here to tell anyone how to live. I’m just being myself. And if someone learns something from my presence, that’s on its own. I’m not here to force wisdom onto anybody. I’m not here to be praised as a teacher. I’m just living, walking, breathing, and letting my life speak for me.

I watch people give advice they haven’t mastered themselves. I see people replacing one addiction with another, preaching patience while struggling with their own discipline. And I’m not judging—I’m observing. I’m learning. I’m witnessing how the ego tries to hide behind “spiritual guidance.”

And I also see people who are curious about me, who feel something in the way I live, but their own ego stops them from asking or opening up. And that’s okay. Everyone is walking their own path. Everyone awakens at their own pace. If someone is meant to cross paths with me, they will. I don’t chase anyone.

What I’m really learning is that true teaching doesn’t come from talking. It comes from living. True teachers don’t try to be teachers—they simply embody the lesson. They move with silence, discipline, and presence.

And that’s the stage I’m stepping into now:

The stage where I don’t need to explain myself.

The stage where I don’t need recognition.

The stage where my presence teaches more than my words.

I am watching myself grow into a deeper version of who I’ve always been. I am becoming more silent, more aware, more grounded. My mind is shifting from wanting to guide others… to simply becoming the example.

This is spiritual understanding.

This is maturity.

This is evolution.

Yoruba Yogi