The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life.

This is an essential experience of any mystical realization. You die to your flesh and are born into your spirit. You identify yourself with the consciousness and life of which your body is but the vehicle. You die to the vehicle and become identified in your consciousness with that of which the vehicle is but the carrier. That is the God.

All the old bindings are broken. Cosmological centers now are anywhere and everywhere. The earth is a heavenly body, most beautiful of all, and all poetry is now archaic that fails to match the wonder of this view.

There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.

Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)

It is within you that the divine lives.

The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations.