“Enlightenment (or not) is an evolutionary process”

“Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it's not necessary to be radical all the time.”

“You are a side effect," Van Houten continued, "of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation.”

“Enlightenment will be now the beginning, not the end. Beginning of a non-ending process in all dimensions of richness. ”

“Enlightenment is a destructive process. Ithas nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is thecrumbling away of untruth. It's seeingthrough the facade of pretence. It's thecomplete eradication of everything weimagined to be true.”

“In the process of burning out these confusions, we discover enlightenment. If the process were otherwise, the awakened state of mind would be a product dependent upon cause and effect and therefore liable to dissolution. Anything which is created must, sooner or later, die. If enlightenment were created in such a way, there would always be a possibility of ego reasserting itself, causing a return to the confused state. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.”