Once more one practices with light. The light of the beams of your eyes as again, because you are onto something very tangible. And of course, you know, that that’s when, if one opens one’s eyes, then, one’s eyelids, of course, then the impact of the environment is going to force one’s glance into focus unless one has a lot of strength. And that requires, that’s where the power comes in, a lot of strength, to keep one’s concentration. But then you can’t see anything. It seems like a blur. But eventually then, you start being able to concentrate, focus your glance, upon say a flower for example, and then eventually a person. And then we have to avoid just slipping back into the usual way of looking at a person. And then you begin to see the eternal face of the person. It’s offset, your consciousness is offset and it’s very beautiful. That’s why Jalauddin Rumi says, "If you could see youself through my eyes, you would realize how beautiful you are."

And so the whole world looks beautiful, whereas ordinarily it doesn’t look that beautiful. And so consequently, one is in ecstasy. You can’t force yourself to be in ecstasy but when God reveals Him/Herself to you in such beauty, then you are moved to the depth of your being. Through sensory perception. So this is not samadhi. There’s a word of Ibn 'Arabi that I quoted you, perhaps in that handout. He says, it was through the senses that I experienced God.