Enlightenment - Words used in A Course in Miracles

   Trying to be aware of Truth, which is what you are, makes sense only to the deluded. Yet the person who believes himself to imprisoned needs help understanding that the door is open.

If they ask for enlightenment and accept it, their fears vanish.                      T-12.II.4:2.

If you want understanding and enlightenment you will learn it, because your decision to learn it is the decision to listen to the Teacher Who knows of light, and can therefore teach it to you. There is no limit on your learning because there is no limit on your mind. There is no limit on His teaching because He was created to teach. Understanding His function perfectly He fulfills it perfectly, because that is His joy and yours. T-8.III.1:4-7.

Why wait for Heaven? Those who seek the light are merely covering their eyes. The light is in them now. Enlightenment is but a recognition, not a change at all. W-188.1:1-4.