Enlightenment and Meaning: What Exactly does Enlightenment Mean?

If enlightenment is our ultimate purpose...then certainly sharing our journey with others and showing them the way is too...

Maybe it's just me...that's what I am constantly inspired and driven to do...

Enlightenment and Meaning...two heavy words that can jump start any philosophical discussion...

But in this world...in my daily life...what does it look like?

What is Enlightenment really like?

People talk about it enough...as being a wonderful thing...

I know it when I see it...that's for sure...actually it's something you are more likely to feel in another person...

There will be no philosophical or academic discussion here by the way...

I'm talking about the experience of meeting someone who has discovered the state that some of us call "enlightenment"...

My experience is that they could have any type of personality you can imagine...silly and talkative...warm and friendly...mellow and observant...but no matter how much energy they may have...

They all emanate a sense of peace and joy that is deeper than the ocean itself...

And from my own personal experience with enlightenment...and the question of enlightenment and meaning...

I wouldn't say that it's a permanent place that you stay in for the rest of your life...because we're human...and we forget...sometimes...

And because it's not something that "happens" to you...

It's something you realize when you let go of your crap...somewhere deep inside of you, you know what your crap is...

Some of you may even think that you are your crap...

I know what that's like...I used to do that...

But you're not...I promise...

It all starts with a thought...the thought that you're ok...whether you realize it or not...it doesn't matter...because you really are ok...period...

Kind of like "the sky is blue"...and it doesn't matter if you think the sky is green...it doesn't change the fact that the sky is blue...

That doesn't mean you don't do stupid things sometimes...we all do that...that's what humanity does...it's why we have such great television... ;)

You'll notice your magnificence a lot faster if you spend more time noticing what you do well and where you are improving...

Every...single...tiny...thing...

Because there are only tiny improvements and tiny good things...

The same way that dominoes are tiny things...but if you stack them up...and set them off...you get the domino effect...which shows just how powerful millions of tiny things can be....

All amazing and inspiring people are made up of millions of tiny good things...

And most of them have had a lot of help from other people too...

Happy...joyful...enlightened people...

Are no different from you...

• They've embraced the reality that they are ok.
• They've realized that they are not their crap.
• They've let that crap go.
• They are focused on what they do well and where they are improving.
• They know that tiny things can be very powerful and
• They know that we all need help sometimes to do great things.

Enlightenment and Meaning may be challenging subjects to discuss but that's only because they aren't meant to be talked about...

They are meant to be experienced...

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