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Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive - that you can touch the miracle of being alive - then that is a kind of enlightenment.

And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.

I don't believe that human beings can achieve ultimate enlightenment, because humans have flaws.

I am a firm believer that one way to become enlightened is to be so relaxed, as relaxed as you possibly can be.

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.

In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference.

I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really.