Strictly speaking, "you" cannot become enlightened, because who you take yourself to be is like a ripple in the ocean of consciousness - or a little wave if you're a VIP - and the ripple doesn't become enlightened until it realizes that its ripple-identity is ultimately a misperception, that it is the ocean taking on a fleeting ripple-form.

...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

It's harder for me, never having brought up a child, to enter the universe of the child.

Let's say you have to catch a plane, and you are packing your suitcase and moving fast. Most people would call that stress. Most people live stressed like that all the time.

If you walk into a forest - you hear all kinds of subtle sounds - but underneath there is an all pervasive silence.

The fires of suffering become the light of consciousness.