Where To Look For Enlightenment

Where to Look For Enlightenment

"Where shall I look for enlightenment?"

"Here."

"When will it happen?"

"It is happening right now."

"Then why don't I experience it?"

"Because you do not look."

"What should I look for?"

"Nothing, just look."

"At what?"

"Anything your eyes alight upon."

"Must I look in a special kind of way?"

"No. The ordinary way will do."
"But don't I always look the ordinary way?"

"No."

"Why ever not?"

"Because to look you must be here.  You're mostly somewhere else."

--Anthony de Mello