“From 10,10 to the Cleaner’s Gnosis”
- pvdbovenkamp

- Nov 18
- 3 min read
What I Learned by Walking Through What Others Avoid**
Most awakenings don’t happen on mountaintops. They happen in supermarkets, in cars, during work, in the quiet corners of daily life where no one is looking.

Mine happened at a gas pump.
10.10 liters.
Pure alignment staring me in the face.
At first it seemed like nothing — just a number.
But something inside me recognized it instantly:
This is a doorway.
And that moment connected itself
to something I had been noticing for a while in my job as a cleaner.
The 10:10 Moment — A Reset in Disguise
10 is completion.
10:10 is completion mirrored.
A cycle ends.
A new cycle begins.
A breath closes.
A breath opens.
For me it felt like the universe saying:
“You are taking in exactly the energy needed for the next phase.”
No forcing.
No burnout.
Just… alignment.
And that’s when the realization hit me.
**The Cleaner’s Gnosis —
Seeing the Unseen Architecture of Society**
Most people never stop to think
about what happens with everything they avoid.
The coffee spills.
The toilets.
The dust.
The wrappers.
The forgotten items.
The “I’ll do it later.”
The “Someone else will handle it.”
But a cleaner sees it all.
Every day I walk through what people don’t want to deal with.
Not because they’re bad people —
but because society is built on avoiding discomfort.
And the more I worked, the more I saw the pattern:
We are a society keeping ourselves busy
cleaning up what others don’t want to face.
Not just physically.
Emotionally.
Energetically.
Mentally.
We clean up each other’s:
stress
chaos
avoidance
laziness
fear
procrastination
unconsciousness
And suddenly my job wasn’t “a job” anymore.
It became a mirror.
A training ground.
A sharpening stone.
A quiet dojo where the world’s truth reveals itself in the messes people leave behind.
**The Hidden Lesson —
Only Those Who Walk Through Avoidance Learn to See**
Cleaning taught me more than any book or teaching ever did.
When you walk into what others turn away from,
your perception becomes razor sharp.
You begin to see:
who leaves what behind
what patterns repeat
what people refuse to deal with
how society distracts itself
how avoidance shapes behavior
how much unconsciousness we normalize
And suddenly…
you stop seeing “trash.”
You start seeing truth.
This is Gnosis:
not information,
but direct knowing.
**The Transition —
From Maintaining the World to Creating My Own**
And here’s the part I didn’t expect:
The more truth I saw,
the more I felt something shifting inside me.
Cleaning wasn’t a punishment.
It was preparation.
A training in:
responsibility
clarity
discipline
awareness
inner strength
boundaries
neutrality
humility
seeing patterns
understanding human behavior
Almost like my soul put me there to develop the exact traits I would need for the next phase of my life.
10:10 confirmed it.
I wasn’t meant to stay in the role of maintaining other people’s world.
I was being prepared to build my own.
The Essence of It All
The insight came fully formed:
“I learned the truth by walking through what others avoid. Now I step out of maintaining the old and into creating the new.”
This is the Cleaner’s Gnosis.
Not romantic,
not glamorous,
but powerful beyond words.
We awaken where we least expect it.
We transform while doing the most human tasks.
We evolve through what the world ignores.
And sometimes…
the universe signs the moment with 10:10
just to make sure you don’t miss it.
Much love & light 💛🙏🏼




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