“After enlightenment, one is still the same as one was before. One is simply free from unreality and delusion. The ordinary person’s mind is the same as the sage’s, because Original Mind is perfect and complete in itself. After you’ve had this recognition, please don’t lose it.” – Pai-chang
“Enlightenment is man’s release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man’s inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. Sapere aude! ‘Have courage to use your own reason!’- that is the motto of enlightenment.”
― Immanuel Kant, An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?
“The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.”
― Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
When you’re enlightened (or lit up by passion), you see something that no one else sees. Therefore, be wary of telling others what it is you see and expecting their assent. They won’t, because they don’t see it. And you risk falling into discouragement and inertia when that happens.
Instead, trust in your vision. And go execute on it.
Eventually, the right people will “see it” too.
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