' 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