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We Loved Money And It Didn’t Love Us Back
“Love don’t make things nice, it ruins everything, it breaks your heart, it makes things a mess. We’re not here to make things perfect. Snowflakes are perfect. The stars are perfect. Not us. We are here to ruin ourselves and break our hearts and love the wrong people and die.”
~ Ronny Cammareri — Moonstruck
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When people experience Enlightenment, they frequently report losing their sense of self, and scientific analysis confirms that brain activity is driving this sensation. Though Enlightenment is typically associated with fervently religious or spiritual individuals like Mother Teresa or the Buddha, people from all walks of life can experience essence-changing events — sometimes just walking down the street, Dr. Newberg tells us…
…If there is a sensation associated with this type of Enlightenment — such as seeing a light or color or hearing a sound — it is described as one of the most intense experiences that a person has ever had. And this intensity is reflected in the brain’s limbic system, which processes emotion, and in its parietal lobe, which organizes our sensory information to create sensations of time, space, and self.
Philosophically, what does Enlightenment mean? …perhaps Enlightenment is like a pair of glasses: We are born into the world with bad vision…
