Levels of Enlightenment

Charles Berner

"Just because you have reached one depth of enlightenment doesn’t mean that there aren’t more.  You can go deeper and deeper to more and purer levels of consciousness.  A direct consciousness of the Truth is itself.  There’s nothing more to be done with it than that.  It’s an absolute state and there’s no maybe about it.  However, there are deeper levels where there is greater consciousness of other aspects of the Absolute.  It is not that the deeper levels are any more absolute.  They just include more of the Absolute itself.  For example, even though you may have had a direct experience of who you are, well then what are you?  Were you created by something?  How long do you last?  How old are you?  What colour are you?  How much do you weigh?  Do you shine?  Do you have a structure, form, pattern, shape?  It is one thing to come up with intellectual answers to those questions and another thing to actually experience directly what it is that you are."
Source: 
Charles Berner; Enlightenment and the Enlightenment Intensive, Volume 2; Chapter 5, Levels of Enlightenment; 
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