Enlivenment

"... Waking up is not a state of disembodied ‘enlightenment’. It is an ecstatic state of individual ‘enlivenment’! It is living as the one appearing to be someone. Our individual identities are to be celebrated, because it is only by appearing to be separate that the one can become conscious of itself. Our personal relationships, attachments, and aspirations are not impediments to awakening. They are the glorious colours of existence, through which we come to the light from which all colours arise. Life is not an inconsequential illusion. Life is magic. Life is a marvel to be enjoyed in this present moment.

When we reject the personal and see life as an illusion we may hope to experience oneness, but actually we get caught in a more subtle form of separateness. And what is missing from this state is big love. Big love arises when we are conscious of both poles of our identity. Big love is knowing we are both separate and not-separate, and communing through our uniqueness. Waking up doesn’t lead to indifference and inaction. It leads to a paradoxical state in which we both appreciate the perfection of the moment and we are moved by compassion to make things better, by relieving suffering and increase joy..."

Timothy Freke