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Emotion there must be in every experience that is to mean anything to one's life, be it aesthetic or painful, amatory or mystical. But if in a mystical experience the emotion becomes violent and excessive then the new consciousness of the Overself, which is on a higher level than emotion, can only be confused and not clearly attained.

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 2 : Phases of Mystical Development > # 12