' The arrival of Enlightenment '...

Does enlightenment come all of a sudden? Or do we have to work slowly for it by degrees?

The answer varies with the case concerned. Most need time to fit and equip themselves for the glorious moment of insight, but a few receive it in a day.

It must be remembered that it does not actually happen in time but out of it, in the great Stillness.

The man does not know the absolute final truth a second before--and then it is all there.

How soon it can settle down in him will also vary with different persons--it was a few hours in one case but three years in another.


-- Notebooks Category 25: World-Mind in Individual Mind >
Chapter 2: Enlightenment Which Stays > # 53 Paul Brunton