Rupert says that enlightenment is simply the recognition of the nature of your being. All that is being spoken of is just the ordinary, intimate, obvious, familiar being that enables each of us to say with absolute certainty, I am. Not some extraordinary, mystical, enlightened being—all 8 billion of us can say I am. It is the least exotic experience there is. Even the taste of tea is by comparison exotic. The reason you haven’t quite yet recognised your own being is precisely because it is so close, so simple, so familiar, so intimate. Just close your eyes. Have the thought I am. And then go to the experience in yourself to which those words refer.
