Maybe from “insight that show us we are denizens of the dark”?
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Freedom IS the perception that the brain is enslaved by its conditioning?
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If “the perception” implies a specific kind or occurrence of perception, then perhaps it becomes restrictive, bound to thought’s tendency to define and limit.
Perception itself is not bound by qualifiers. It is either whole, complete, free of distortion, or it is not perception at all but merely recognition shaped by past conditioning. Freedom is not in a particular perception or insight but in the clear seeing of what is, unfiltered by thought, without division or effort… in perceiving.
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If I am not enlightened, I am in the dark. I know I am in the dark (because I have partial insights, flashes of light that show I am in the dark),so I am a denizen of the dark. All of us here are denizens of the dark who know we are in the dark. Are you the exception?
If ‘enlightenment’ refers to a different dimension, something “sacred and timeless”, is there any place there for ‘I’?
I’m curious why you use time (“moving away from the desire to change oneself towards curiosity about what one is”) to talk about something that involves no time at all (“the first step is the last step”)? 
The ‘first step’ and the only ‘step’ is the step away from the limited, mechanical movement of thought / feeling to the eternal, timeless ‘movement’ of Now?
‘The first step is the last step’ is the realization that there is neither a first step, nor a last step, nor an actor who performs such an action.
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The state of truth is the absence of illusion.