"Once the call of the True Self is heard not only with the heart but also with the mind and conscience there will be no way back to the way things have been. Sooner or later we will recognize that we no longer have any choice but to allow ourselves the extraordinary freedom to go all the way in this life. Because, after all, if we have begun to see through the illusory world that the ego creates and have heard the call of the True Self to live our lives for a greater purpose-what else is there to do?" ~ Andrew Cohen from Living Enlightenment
That's from Andrew Cohen's great little book, Living Enlightenment. If you haven't heard of him or his work or his magazine (What Is Enlightenment?) me thinks you'll dig it.
A great place to start is with my PhilosophersNote on his book!
In the meantime...
"The whole point is that if we truly want to be free here and now, we have to be willing to destroy the "meantime." The meantime is that eternity between now and that point in the future when we think we will be fully prepared to surrender unconditionally, finally ready to declare, ‘Not my will, but Thy will be done.' If we are serious, the meantime is the most dangerous place to be ... We will know that we are beginning to awaken for real when we recognize that there's absolutely nothing to wait for."
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