“The self in its first purgation has cleansed the mirror of perception; hence, in its illumined life, has seen Reality ... Now, it has got to be Reality: a very different thing. For this a new and more drastic purgation is needed - not of the organs of perception, but of the very shrine of the self: that ‘heart’ which is the seat of personality, the source of its love and will.” In a certain sense, this is the real start of the Way, of the true spiritual life, which is nothing else than self-surrender, self-abandonment, actually underwriting whatever happens to one, dying as the separate and
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