“The problem with ‘enlightenment’ isn’t due to the difficulty of achieving some lofty but elusive spiritual goal. The seeming difficulty lies only in the fact that we’ve been taught that we’re unenlightened, unworthy, and unlovable. … You can’t not have enlightenment, but you can claim to not have it. And you can live a belief that you’re unenlightened, even while striving to ‘attain’ enlightenment. Stop claiming unenlightenment, and simply begin accepting who you truly are, instead of accepting who you aren’t, and then live who you are. Nothing is required to attain enlightenment; it is simply a matter of being who you’ve always been. And you do that by giving yourself permission to be and to live the truth that is already within you.”

-- Charles David Heineke

“Enlightenment is a journey of no distance, to a destination you never left.”

-- Unknown Source