Enlightenment isn't all that hard to achieve. It's hard to KEEP. It's entirely possible to have moments of incredible lucidity and clarity and spiritual revelation, but that state of enlightenment (clarity, lucidity, etc.) doesn't remain with you. Eventually your ego takes over again. You remember the moments of enlightenment, yes, and they change you, slowly, over time, but it takes a long time before you can maintain that state all or even most of the time.
I think it's sort of like being made into a vessel that is capable of holding the enlightenment, that's what takes time.
At least, this is my own reflection on the subject (even if I did kinda say what Oliver said in different terms). And no, I do not claim to be enlightened, but I definitely have had periods of startling and blissful lucidity that I believe are signposts on the road to enlightenment.
I've decided I'm going to achieve enlightenment in this lifetime or die trying.
May the light surround you, may you be blessed. May the light surround us, may we be blessed. May love and light surround us all, and may we all be healed and blessed. And so it is, and so it shall be, now and ever after.
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