I'm on a journey to spiritual enlightenment. Has anyone actually reached a point of enlightenment, eliminating suffering and maintaining peace within?

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I was born there. I have done a lot of spiritual exploration. But I didn’t do it because I was looking for escape from a suffering mind, but only because I was curious.

Emotion is a bit weird for me. I feel them, but I’m not bound to them and I can change what I’m feeling if I need to.

I never feel doubt or suffering. When I read The Power of Now, I thought it was entertaining but I didn’t find any use for the lessons within. Inner peace comes so naturally to me that I can find it hard to relate to people.

I’m male and white, but I was born in a very chaotic environment, and we were pretty poor. My mom threw my dad out when I was five, and we bounced around homes dealing with my alcoholic father until she remarried and moved away. I got picked on some in school. None of it really bothered me.

At some points in my adult life, I used to think I was depressed. What it really was was just lack of stimulation. Once I found something to do, I was fine.