Guidance We are not born enlightened; we are born ignorant, with potentials and proclivities. We earn every bit of emotional intelligence, even if we start out with a knack for it. The price of emotional intelligence or enlightenment is (1) the suffering of realizing what it is that we are ignorant of, and (2) the process of – piece by piece – changing ourselves to be what we have seen in our peak experience. Well, that process is a kind of misery in itself, which we call Dark Night...
