In real-life, grown-up, no-shit mysticism, Enlightenment, Union, Liberation, Nivrana, call it what you will, is viewed not as the end but as the beginning of real development. Anything before that, for all its abundant interest, fascinating experience, and transcendent sights, qualifies as tourism. - Rafi Zabor, "The Turn" (in Harper's, June 2004, p.54)