Apr. 10th, 2009

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"'The whole point is not to get visions but to get realizations,' she said sharply, referring to the stage when a truth stops being a mental or intellectual construct and becomes real. Only when the meditation dropped from the head to the heart, and was felt, could transformation begin to take place. 'And realizations are quite bare,' she continued. 'They are not accompanied by lights and music. We're trying to see things as they really are. A realization is non-conceptual. It's not a product of the thinking process or the emotions - unlike visions which come from that level. A realization is the white transparent light at the centre of the prism) not the rainbow colours around it.'" -p 112
"From a spiritual point of view it's not advantageous to be a rabbit. It's better to be a tiger. Rabbits are very nice and cuddly but they don't have much potential for breaking through. Tigers, on the other hand, are very wild but that pure energy, if used skilfully, is exactly what's needed on the path. All the great saints were very passionate people. It's just that they didn't dissipate their passions into negative channels. They used them as fuel to send them to Enlightenment.'" - p 169

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