Admin/Kath   09/16/2025
To start, to examine choices:  are they being made out of fear or love?  Because if you recognize that these are choices under your own control you can move into love and leave fear behind.

Alexandra Server  09/23/2025
Something that might not be too hard to do:  Approach every individual with kindness and love.  I do think, though, that you have to love yourself first.  Since we are all one - we're here on Earth to experience separation - if we don't love ourselves, we cannot truly love someone else (or our other self).

Terri   09/23/2025
For me, the first step would seem to be the acknowledgement that there is more to reality than what my five senses can feel....that I am more than just a body.  Next, I would ask, then what am I?  Am I my thoughts?  Or as Eckhert Tolle says, I am the consciousness between the thoughts.  
But, before we even go there, we have to define enlightenment.  Is it just being in the NOW, or something else?
It seems that there is a character limit, so I didn't get to say that I don't know if we defined "enlightenment" in our meditation call today, since I was absent during most of the discussion.

Marian  09/23/2025
I have reminders around about who I want to be….idea of being a bringer of the light. Also do things like widening peripheral vision which creates a relaxation response and reminds me of being up high like like on a scenic overlook, That  helps me remember who I really am/ who we really are, spiritual beings having a human lifetime.

 
Mike H.   09/23/2025
A small part of enlightenment for me is to become aware of how I might be impacting others in a negative way without my realizing it. 
Haven’t seen a definition of enlightenment I like. Another small part of enlightenment for me is getting rid of beliefs.

 
Admin/Kath   09/23/2025
I will put a little compilation together tomorrow which reviews original group on enlightenment.  But here's a relevant quote:  

Liz: Growth doesn’t occur in a vacuum. One must immerse himself in something — relate with someone — in order to grow, right?
A:  Spiritual growth is an extremely active process, but many times, it isolates you from the mainstream — this is what we are saying. Spiritual enlightenment, which is indeed a byproduct, is an ecstatic experience to which nothing can possibly compare.

I think the original question might be more the spiritual growth component.
 
LOL Mike you are hitting all the key concepts.  You are on fire!  How about: Beliefs -- there are the beliefs that are imprinting that need to go, but then there is the need to keep beliefs mutable, flexible, without attachment, in order to grow spiritually imo.

Added to the Forum, a Compilation on Enlightenment.