The secret teaching was the bodhisattva ideal, to live for others, for the welfare of all beings. That's enlightenment, not some flashy state of luminosity.

When you do something half-heartedly, you don't get much of a result. When you do it fully, you get a great result.

Take the level of dedication that anyone had to get to the top in any field, and apply it to self-discovery. Except that when you get to the top of anything else, it washes away. You will die. The only thing that stays with you forever is your awareness.

The logical and extralogical exercises you do in meditation are very similar to advanced systems analysis and programming.

The fulfillment of desire does not necessarily make you happy because there is a satiation factor. You can get some apple pie and eat it. If this is what makes you happy, why not eat ten?

As the meditation evolves, you attention passes into higher realms of consciousness.

Like all power spots, it needs to be treated with respect.