Kara Lawson's "Handle Hard Better"
YouTube speech was an instant hit
because we all knew it
but hadn't put it together
the way she did.
Her saying it enabled us to recognize it
as an "Aha! Moment,"
because we already knew it
and did not have to be talked into it,
or have it explained to us.
We knew it instantly,
because we all had known it intuitively.
That's enlightenment.
Knowing what we have always known intuitively,
and recognizing it instantaneously
when we hear it, or think it: "Aha! Of Course!"
Enlightenment is not knowing something we don't know.
Enlightenment is knowing what we know.
What we have always known.
Intuitively.
Not rationally.
Not logically.
Right Brain stuff.
Not Left Brain stuff.
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Jim Dollar's Photography and Philosophy 
let me just say 2 things (1) good message today, (b) enlightenment can be a BITCH. Be prepared to address this fact.
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Everything can be a bitch from someone’s perspective. What goes into forming our perspective is the everlasting question. Since we can never escape our perspective, we have to consider our perspective from the standpoint of considering our perspective, and that results in our never being sure if what we see is how it is or how we perceive it to be. Which leads me to “see” that we would be wise to take very little seriously–the only thing to take seriously for sure is to not take much of anything seriously, and to be leery about that.
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I guess what I meant was that sometimes our enlightenment may be unpleasant for us, like when we realize that we are jerks. We should be prepared to accept/change the enlightenment we have accepted. I suppose there is always the way out—refuse to accept the enlightenment, like Scrooge and his bit of mustard.
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And to understand that enlightenment is not a steady state of being, not a recipe for how to do it/see it, think about it, but a perspective that takes itself into account. Changing to take additional realizations into account, realizations created by new experiences, or by experiencing old conclusions in new ways–enlightenment is always being enlightened, a flowing, evolving, moving receptivity to life, dancing with the circumstances, deepening, broadening, enlarging, expanding our understanding/perspective all the way–a knowing that knows more all the time. Knowing it never knows all there is to know, or all it needs to know, at any point along the way. The Buddha died from eating bad pork. How enlightened was that? Along with the Buddha (and the Christ), we all can say, “I was such a jerk!”, at any point along the way–and be right.
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