"Maybe you think that you’ll get closer to enlightenment if you keep reminding yourself to work at allowing things to happen without forcing, and to be in the present, and to be centered.
But you’ve got it all backwards when you copy the effects of enlightenment in order to be enlightened. Those things are just the map. They are not the territory. Occupy the territory, and those things will happen spontaneously, without you having to work at it.
There is still another way that you’ve got it all backwards. That is when you desire enlightenment.
You might think that you desire enlightenment. Actually, enlightenment desires you. When you are pushing toward it, you are misperceiving. It is actually pulling you. And The ocean comes to the drop, not the other way around.”
Join us for a profound and life changing discussion with Jeffrey Chappell, author of his book and an International Best Seller "Answers from Silence"
Learn how to shift your perception of your work, your journey towards enlightenment so that you, like me, stop doing it backwards!
Jeffrey Chappell is the author of "Answers From Silence", which became an international best-seller in March this year. He is a lifelong student of spirituality, a practitioner of the MariEl healing method, and a long-term meditator. He is a professional concert pianist and has traveled around the world giving performances and music seminars. He is also a composer, recording artist, jazz musician, and college professor. His numerous writings, exploring the spiritual dimensions of music, have been published in Clavier Magazine and in Piano and Keyboard Magazine, for which he was a contributing editor. He posts articles regularly at answersfromsilence.com.
