"In a flash, I was back in my mortal form, floating among the stars. I saw a prism shaped like a human heart, which dwarfed every galaxy. It diffracted the light of consciousness into an explosion of radiant colors, sparkling splinters of every rainbow hue, spreading throughout the cosmos.
"My own body became a radiant prism,
throwing splinters of multicolored light everywhere. And it came to me
that the highest purpose of the human body is to become a clear channel for
this light--so that its brightness can dissolve all obstructions, all knots,
all resistance."
--p.78
"Yes, it was the Garden of Eden. Every infant lives in a bright Garden where everything is sensed directly, without the veils of thought--free of beliefs, interpretation, and judgments.
"You 'fell' from grace when you began thinking, about--when you became a namer and a knower. It's not just Adam and Eve, you see, it's all of us. The birth of the mind is the death of the senses--it's not that we eat an apple and get a little sexy!"
"I wish I could go back," I sighed. "It was so bright, so clear, so beautiful."
"What you enjoyed as a child
can be yours again. Jesus of Nazareth, one of the Great warriors, once
said that you must become like a little child to enter the Kingdom of
Heaven." Socrates paused, then added, "Meet me tomorrow morning at 8
a.m. at the Botanical Gardens. It's time we went on a nature hike."
--pp.158-159