Ohhhhhhhhhh then Enlightenment is the sound of one hand clapping.
If you only told me before..>:-)))

No doubt I could write a book-length reply here that wouldn't explain a thing to anyone. I can only describe my experience.

I was in the Navy in the Pentagon having my lunch at my desk, reading a magazine. (Could this be a less inspiring place for what follows?) Suddenly, in my mind's eye everything went bright white and for a split second, I felt like I understood EVERYTHING. Without the ability to retain this, all I could do was walk around smiling all day, just "knowing" something greater than I had before. At this point in my life, I'd had absolutely no knowledge of Eastern thought or philosophy. At the time I had only just met a civilian guy that I trusted enough to tell about this odd thing. He smiled and handed me Alan Watts' book, THE BOOK ON THE TABOO AGAINST KNOWING WHO YOU ARE. (All caps because there are no italics here.) And so it began, my search, and my newly opened mind. Now Wade's "thrills of discovery" as he called it, are a regular thing. I simply know that there's something bigger and better out there. For me God became bigger than some Zeus-looking character in a robe far away. He (IT) became Everything That IS. A kind of cosmic soup that I can swim in.

Each of us has our own experience, so I don't expect my description will make sense to all of you. I do know that I have the ability to sip some of that soup and make things happen in a God-way that I wouldn't have been able to do otherwise.