Enlightenment occurs when we awaken to the truth
that everything is higher consciousness, or Spirit.
This realization, however, is not a mere intellectual exercise.
Rather, it is a bodily and mental transformation
that shatters all our intellectual presumptions about it.
It sweeps us up and grasps and transfigures our entire body-mind.
What gets blown to pieces is the idea
that we are different from that Reality -
that we are an I, an ego, a finite personality.
In our realization of higher consciousness,
we do not merely conceive it, or speculate about it, or even intuit it.
We are it. Or to put it different, it is all there is.
-Georg Feuerstein