“Do not think that enlightenment is going to make you special, it’s not.
If you feel special in any way, then enlightenment has not occurred.
I meet a lot of people who think they are enlightened and awake simply because they have had a very moving spiritual experience.
They wear their enlightenment on their sleeve like a badge of honor.
They sit among friends and talk about how awake they are while sipping coffee at a cafe.
The funny thing about enlightenment is that when it is authentic, there is no one to claim it.
Enlightenment is very ordinary; it is nothing special.
Rather than making you more special, it is going to make you less special.
It plants you right in the center of a wonderful humility and innocence.
Everyone else may or may not call you enlightened, but when you are enlightened the whole notion of enlightenment and someone who is enlightened is a big joke.
I use the word enlightenment all the time; not to point you toward it but to point you beyond it.
Do not get stuck in enlightenment.”
- Adyashanti