Part One of What the Mystics know by Richard Rohr is titled: “The enlightenment you seek already dwells within you.”

When talking about enlightenment,  Rohr asks “How do you awaken the Center? By thinking about it?  By praying and meditating?  By more silence and solitude?  Yes, perhaps, but mostly by living — and living consciously.”  I believe this fits in with the new topic of “Mindfulness.”  Being aware of everything that is going on around us.   

The following scriptures talk about experiencing God or enlightenment:

1 Corinthians 3:16 NIV

[16] Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?

1 Corinthians 6:17 NIV

[17] But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit.

Acts 17:28 NIV

[28] ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’

Acts 17:27-28 NIV

[27] God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. [28] ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’

Colossians 1:27 NIV

[27] To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

Colossians 1:27 states that the mystery that God makes known is that Christ is within us.  The journey is to seek to experience this Christ within us every minute of our lives.  A journey I hope we can take together.