Have You Eaten Wisdom with Spoons Recently?

There is a strange expression in German 'He has eaten wisdom with spoons', which describes someone who is full of himself and thinks he knows everything there is to know. Isn't that what we are running after when we strive for enlightenment? Isn't there a huge incentive as well for our spiritual writers to describe their spiritual experience of enlightenment, since therefore the book has God's stamp of approval and every word that follows has to be the truth and nothing but the truth?

 Jesus Christ says in 'A Course of Miracles', "think of me like an older brother"; this must be hard to accept for many Christians, but that's how the journey towards enlightenment goes. The word enlightenment implies hierarchy which is not helpful because we are all equals. The enlightenment concept only makes sense if you accept that you are enlightened right here, right now because we have connected at this magic moment. You always have the choice to experience this moment, so there is no need to eat wisdom with spoons; it is always at your disposal when you need it.