TANTRIC-QUEST-Encounter-with-Absolute-Love

the man, there's only a dream of power. That's why his poweris not manifested spontaneously and why it often takes aviolent form. Violence is pure impotence. To be conscious ofhis power, a man must first come to recognize his femininity.In the same way, a woman who represses her natural powerdoesn't find equilibrium within herself or accept her owncapacity for wonder. This is how we define the virile man inTantrism: 'He who retains the capacity for wonder.'"Ecstasy, the continuous experience of the divine throughknowledge of our own nature, is our natural state. Theinfant knows this state, enjoying it from the moment ofconception. It is only under pressure from the outside, education,a bad family situation, that little by little the childloses inborn capabilities - strength, capacity for wonder,absolute self-confidence, openness to the world, the freeblossoming of the heart, which it learns to fold up againand then to close tight. Returning to this childlike state isthe door that reopens the heart.""Is there a difference between the natural awakening ofa child and that of an adult who rediscovers this state?""The return to an awakened state is often made at thecost of a certain amount of suffering at the moment whenthe adult's armor is cracked, when the infinite slips in there.That can be an experience similar to being struck by lightning.Madness is a sort of awakening in which the lightningdoesn't shatter all of the armor. The mind is halfwayinto the infinite and no longer recognizes the structures ofthe finite. Sometimes awakening is more like a glaciermelting, slowly and inexorably. But often, even in this case,the consciousness goes through painful episodes. And thebriefer they are, the more intense.60