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

[Ohr Ein Sof]

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.

To my understanding or misunderstanding (depending on how distorted I am), thoughts create realities on all planes of existence and can even go on to create certain types of thought-forms which can be energized and have their own type of awareness though it be little.
I believe (and this is where I may be misguided), that we pereive thoughts within 3rd density as being finite and the balance to that is the realization that our thoughts create our reality ( but to infinity just as the Creator has made the entire universe(s) ) but on all planes of existence. Just as the words echoed many years ago still echo to this day. The spoken word was once a thought.