It seems that enlightenment refers to realising our true being – what it is that we really are. This is why all the spiritual teachers I’ve come across – from Tibetan Buddhism to Zen to Advaita Vedanta to the Upanishads, usually refer to it as “Self Realisation” rather than enlightenment. Finding out that we are not our thinking mind, we are not our body, we are not our emotions, feelings, desires or aversions; that we are aware of all these things, not intrinsically them.
The truth of spirituality is not a place or even a way of thinking, it is simply our own resilience to the world around us and our ability to trust that when we find a flow and remain true to this the world around us falls into flow with us as well
http://thespiritscience.net/2015/09/16/has-spirituality-become-another-egotistical-identity/
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