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. It is a state of connectedness with something immeasurable and indestructible, something that, almost paradoxically, is essentially you and yet is much greater than you. It is finding your true nature beyond name and form.

Life is your deepest inner Being. It is already whole, complete, perfect.

And whenever you feel that essence in another, you also feel it in yourself.

Every spiritual teaching points to the possibility of the end of suffering - Now. It is true that most teachers have had to go through the "Dark Night of the Soul," although for one or two it was very, very quick.

Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness.

The ego doesn't know that the source of all energy is within you, so it seeks it outside.

The peace that comes with surrendered action turns to a sense of aliveness when you actually enjoy what you are doing.