Enlightenment...

The discovery of his true being is not outwardly dramatic,

and for a long time no one may know of it, except himself.

The world may not honour him for it:

he may die as obscure as he lived.

But the purpose of his life has been fulfilled;

and God's will has been done.



— Notebooks Category 25: World-Mind in Individual Mind > Chapter 2: Enlightenment Which Stays > # 78
Paul Brunton