Enlightenment is like the person who is fighting a forest fire single-handed. They keep putting out the fire only to return the next day to see that it has started up again. Finally, they realise that the only way to extinguish the fire completely is to let the fire rage until it eventually burns itself out. Enlightenment is thus starving your body of redemption, from all of its emotional (chemical) addictions until your mind and body become clear and calm. To stop the chemical voices from your body occupying your mind you have to deny them their fix, and the only way to do that, is to stand in the fire and watch whilst it burns away your past and purifies you.

"There is something magnificent inside of you
that is bursting to get out! And the only thing that's stopping it, is the life you lead. You either develop the mind to resurrect your true self or you stay swimming in your emotional soup, along with the 'mind parasites' of your personality. You are
the leader of your life -
where do you want to take it?" - Gary Bate.

Quotes & articles Copyright Gary Bate 2009