An "Idiot's Guide to Self-Realization", (or), How To Overcome Intellectualism.

[Minyatur]

I think a lot about the spiritual path is about releasing the need for control.

Totally agree, all while still requiring proper navigation (discernment). I'm always reminded of the river metaphor, where you don't want to fight the currents but flow with them, but there is still the need to steer down the more 'ideal' path, lest you hit the rocks, the shore, or fly down the waterfall you are not ready to traverse.

It's really not useful to stop at a single realization.

Thoughts are finite, while what we truly realize is the infinite. So oftentimes you realize something, yet later on come to need to realize its opposite. Then, you have to learn balance the two together. So much fun we can have with duality.