Joy, peace, happiness, satisfaction, prosperity, love, and contentment are not survival pursuits. They are the pursuits of a person who is thriving. The message is plain and simple: the talking in your head is a non-stop survival machine that is relatively useless if you want to live with a Quiet Mind.

From an Enlightened Perspective, the goal is to experience life as easy, effortless, flowing, and enjoyable.

I define enlightenment as the recognition that the source of life within you is the source of life in everyone and everything else. We are all one thing expressing itself with infinite variety.

All the loss The Drunk Monkey feared turns out to be the exact opposite. It’s a significant advantage to have a Quiet Mind, unburdened by the assumption that you know things. It is profound to realize that you don’t know what is actually happening, ever.

At the center of my definition of enlightenment is the ability to accept what you see without unwanted emotion or reaction. The more you accept, the less you resist. The less you resist, the happier you are. The happier you are, the easier it is to think, express, and create the life you want.

Enlightenment gives you: • The ability to see what has been hidden by the contextual filters of the survival mind • The ability to accept what you see without unwanted emotion or reaction • The freedom to act by following your true desires • The ability to operate completely free from guilt, obligation, cultural dogma, societal programming, fear,

When experiencing Enlightened Prosperity, your essence is shining through cultural conditioning, limiting dogma, and unexamined beliefs. You are doing well personally, professionally, mentally, spiritually, and financially. Everything is working. You are unlimited. You are free.

This is my definition of enlightenment: Enlightenment is the recognition that the source of life within you is the source of life in everyone and everything else. We are all one thing expressing itself with infinite variety.

if you are trying to quiet the mind, then you are basically cutting the weeds off at the top. This book is about pulling the weeds out at the roots so that the mind’s motive for thinking is eliminated altogether.