You have a different relationship to the world entirely. You bring gifts to the world without needing to ask anything of it.
 Question:  I’ve come to meditation to help me bear the atrocities  of the world. What is awakening? Is it a moment of conscience when one  embraces all the sorrows of the world, and in that case means hello to  all sorrows or is it on the contrary a state of total forgetfulness and  egotism, in that case it would be hello to guilt? So, which is it? Thanissaro Bhikkhu:   Neither. Remember the image of feeding. Ordinarily, we feed on the  world, both physically and mentally, in order to gain happiness and  maintain our identity as beings. But when you gain full awakening, the  mind no longer needs to feed because it already has enough in terms of  its own happiness. When you’ve reached that state, you can engage in the  world without having to feed on it. You can help those whom you can  help, and you don’t have to suffer in cases where you can’t help. In  this way, you’re neither embracing the sorrows of the world nor are you  running away from them. Instead you have a different relati...