The person who says, 'I'm enlightened' probably isn't.
You look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is.
If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.
We gain internal freedom through external actions.
Suffering brings me so close to God.
It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.