Enlightenment cannot be achieved

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Enlightenment only becomes available when it has

been accepted that it cannot be achieved.

 

Doctrines, processes, and progressive paths that

seek enlightenment only exacerbate the problem

they address by reinforcing the idea that the self

can find something that it presumes it has lost. It

is that very effort, that investment in self-identity

that continuously recreates the illusion of separ-

ation from oneness. This is the veil that we believe

exists. It is the dream of individuality.

 

- Tony Parsons

 

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" As It Is " - The Open Secret of Spiritual Awakening

Tony Parsons

Inner Directions Publishing, 2000