The spiritual obstacle for the meditation practitionner may consist of seeking outside validation for what he finds within.
The obstacle for the religious person may consist of not seeking within himself confirmation of what is communicated to him from the outside.
At the root of these stagnations on the spiritual chain lies the same energy of uncertainty, of doubt.
The same fear of freedom.
One fears the freedom he has encountered, glimpsed.
The other fears the freedom he might experience.
The same uncertainty, resulting from an atavism of gregariousness (herd instinct), the same doubt, the same difficulty in the face of the invitation to let go of the branches of the tree from which we hang.
The former places dead branches, seeking to find his camp.
The latter refuses to let go of the trunk to stand above the void,
Above the living.
Notes & Silence 
Thankfully, a gregarious nature is not something with which I’ve ever had to struggle unduly. Give me the mountains and the windswept seas, the open skies and the anger of the storm. The introvert who says he never seeks validation lies, but it is far more easily avoided for such.
As to the religious man – maybe that lies at one of the roots of my antipathy.
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