Sublime

Enlightenment or ascension to an exalted form of existence is the simple acceptance of each new moment as being perfect, with everything you are, whatever that may be.

Enlightenment provides you with a context to enjoy unbelievable freedom, creativity, power, and influence over your life. As you pierce through the veil of the mind’s denial system, you will have more power over your life. When you see life as innocent, perfect, or meaningless, you deal with things much more sensibly.

It is useful to understand that enlightenment itself is not fixed. It is not limited to any particular insight or moment of awakening; it is also the fluid and dynamic functioning of the totality of conscious life. That is why, with the dawning of enlightenment, there is nothing to attain or grab hold of—there is only the truth as it appears and fu

At its most universal, enlightenment is simply expanded self-awareness. We go beyond stories, beyond fixed boundaries, beyond the rickety construct of “I,” and, in doing so, awareness effortlessly expands. It expands naturally, of its own accord, because stories, boundaries, and limitations were artificial to begin with.

As enlightenment grows in you, confusion and ignorance will have to withdraw. It will not only influence your thinking, but also your body and your way of living.

Enlightenment is a way of viewing and experiencing life. These practices are meant to be one part—although a powerful and important part—of a comprehensive devotion to truth, love, and wisdom grounded in a moral and ethical landscape of selfless commitment to the welfare of all beings and undertaken in a spirit of appreciation for the great mystery

Becoming enlightened, in the Buddhist sense of the term, would entail wholly ridding yourself of the twin illusions from which people tend to suffer: the illusion about what’s “in here”—inside your mind—and about what’s “out there” in the rest of the world.

The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being.