Spiritual Enlightenment - What is it?

Spiritual Enlightenment is Awareness. Enlightenment is not about being perfect all of the time, for what is perfect? There is our ego’s idea of perfection, which is unattainable. The true idea of perfection, or our soul’s idea, is that what is existing for us now is perfect. We are perfect as we are because we are always in a state of evolution and growth. Knowing that we are perfect as we are and being at peace is enlightenment.

Spiritual Enlightenment is understanding that the outer world is a mirror of our inner world. It is to use what we experience as a barometer for where to guide our energy. It is to understand the basic nature of how our personal energy dictates what will experience in our outer world. For example, the more love we can energetically radiate to ourselves and to others (pure, unconditional love), the more we will experience that love coming back to us. Enlightened ones don’t blame people or experiences for their misfortune, or place all the praise on outer sources for their pleasure. To be enlightened is to understand that we are responsible for our own experiences, and no one else is to blame.

Enlightenment is to be responsible for creating what you want in your life. It is to seek joy, and then to go out and consciously create it by doing activities that are joyful and to look for joy everywhere. It is to seek abundance and then to find it by seeing it throughout the world, and to celebrate it when it shows up for you in your reality. It is to desire friendship, and to create it by being a good friend.

Enlightenment is to understand that we are all connected. We are all extensions of Source Energy (or God, or All That Is). Enlightenment is to know that to judge another is to judge ourselves. It is to understand that to withhold love from another is to withhold love from our own being.

Spiritual Enlightenment is freedom, and understanding that we are all free. Any restrictions we feel are from our own mind and are self-imposed by our belief system. To be enlightened is to realize that we create our own limitations in our mind, and to accept where we are as perfect. It is not to push against the life you have created and to resist what is. Instead, enlightenment is loving where we are, knowing that we created it for some reason, and then opening up to fully experiencing that limitation. As we cease to resist any perceived restrictions we can be free of them. The more you resist what is, the more you will be trapped by it and experience even more of it in your life. Enlightenment is not denying what is or seeking escape from your reality. It is to see what is, love it, and work through it.

Enlightenment is Acceptance. It is accepting where you are as perfect and opening up to living the life you have created. It is being open to learn from your creations and then ultimately evolve through that learning.

Spiritual Enlightenment is Being. Enlightenment is Awareness. Enlightenment is being Open to What Is – Enlightenment is Acceptance of the Now.