there is a lot to be said for those seeking enlightenment as an addiction being boring to others. as noble as the pursuit is, it is an intensely personal path and effort, so consuming that others may think the seeker is crazy, or at least so all consumed by seeing every element in their life related to their goal of spiritual enlightenment, that the seeker is just experienced as monotonous.
on the other hand, seeking enlightenment is both real and attainable, so a few years of being boring or heavily internalized or fundamentalist is more that worth the effort expended and the grief experienced. the greatest tragedy in the enlightenment soap opera are those who begin the road and then for whatever reason are unable to complete it, giving them a taste of supreme life but leaving them stranded between a world where spiritual life is dabbled in and the completion of a goal begun yet not finished. --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > An enlightenmentaholic is one who *must* have enlighten- > ment, and is unable to control his or her appetite for > this thing he or she has only been told about, and has > never experienced. Outside of just being a bore, this > addiction inhibits his or her ability to use energy for > the far superior and lasting creative effects it can > produce, such as...uh...enjoying life and helping others > to do the same. > -snip-
