--- Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 5/20/05 6:12 AM, TurquoiseB at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>>>> I personally feel now that individual > enlightenment in this > >>>>> lifetime is beyond me... > >>> Saddest statement I've seen yet here. > >>> Unc > >> > >> Sad indeed - but realistic and strangely > "liberating". > > > > I think "liberating" would be the effect of not > spending > > much time thinking about enlightenment or pursuing > it as > > The goal of life. Without exception, all of the > people > > I know who have had periods of enlightenment > (lasting > > anywhere from weeks to months) feel that way about > it > > now that the experience has faded. Their first > realiz- > > ation was unanimously, "This is nothing new...this > has > > been here all along." So what's to miss if the > realiz- > > ation fades? > > Most of the people I know, who live here in > Fairfield, awakened years ago > and they haven't lost it. It has only become deeper, > richer, and clearer. A > few are more recent and they haven't lost it either. > Then there are a few > others who did lose it.
Then they found it later in Ottumwa and others located it in Batavia, I think. > > > > > > To subscribe, send a message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Or go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > and click 'Join This Group!' > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
