The Secret of Enlightenment

“The ultimate goal of our spiritual quest is enlightenment, that is what we all wish to achieve. But why do we seek enlightenment? Perhaps because at present we feel that we are not yet what we should rightfully be, we are not yet enlightened. 

What can be the reason why we are under that impression? In the first years of our life it never occurred to us that we needed to change, we needed to become somebody else, that is, we were in need of enlightenment. Then, some time during our life, that urge arose in us. It is imperative that we examine the circumstances and reasons why that emotion appeared in us, since it is that very emotion that prevents us from becoming enlightened.”  Frank M. Wanderer

~From the book Frank M. Wanderer: The Revolution of Consciousness: Deconditioning the Programmed Mind