The light of our own spirit

There is in Christian mystical literature an understanding and a description, a recognition of what we could call enlightenment experiences. Evagrius Ponticus, one of the more intellectual, theological and philosophical of the Desert Fathers, speaks about meditation as the way ‘in which we come to see the light of our own spirit’. He is describing a stage of consciousness, a stage of the journey. We could say that it’s about seeing one’s mind clearly with-out self-analysis or self-reflection, without the intervention of intellectual thinking.

(Enlightenment  by Laurence Freeman OSB )