This is the best explanation of enlightenment I have read. It comes from: Emmanuel’s Book II, The Choice for Love compiled by Pat Rodegast and Judith Stanton. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
‘What is enlightenment?’
Everything and nothing.
Let me see if I can find another way to put this.
If I say to you: “enlightenment is all-knowing,”
then I limit enlightenment.
If I say “enlightenment is all-loving,”
I limit love.
There can be no beginning and no end
and the human vocabulary is rife with limitation.
So let us say that enlightenment
is being in the moment through eternity
without the intellect
but with the consciousness of all things.
It is absolute peace
without the awareness of non-peace.
It is absolute love
without the awareness of hate.
It is all things without end
having forgotten the illusion of ending.
It is bliss
without the memory of non-bliss.
It is simply ‘is-ness’.
It is you
without your physicality
without your personality
without your clothes on
without your obstructions
without your fears,
without your limitations and boundaries
without even the consciousness of self
except as the boundless perceiver
of infinite Light.
And that doesn’t even begin to describe it
but it is the best I can do at the moment.
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