This idea of enlightenment as some kind of goal we have to achieve is a very deceptive one until we see what the mystical tradition tells us, that there is only one enlightenment. As John Main, Abhishiktananda, and others have said, there’s only one enlightenment and we all enter into that. And that is the mind of Christ, the enlightenment of Christ. So it’s not my enlightenment, it’s not me getting a sudden revelation. There are if you like, temporary enlightenments that happen, experiences that come for a certain time, maybe a few moments, maybe a few days, maybe a few weeks, where we feel penetrated by and immersed in the consciousness of the Spirit, but then that as a separate experience will fade after a while.
( Enlightenment by Laurence Freeman OSB )
