“We live and enjoy the vitality (virya) of consciousness to the degree in which we are sensitive to the beauty of things around us. Each aesthetic experience, had with mindfulness and a disciplined intention directed towards heightening our general level of aesthetic sensitivity, brings us a little closer to the sustained wonder of the pulsation (spanda) of consciousness which permeates all experience.” Kashmir Shaivism Book:The Doctrine of Vibration: An Analysis of the Doctrines and Practices of Kashmir Shaivism Source: The Doctrine of Vibration: An Analysis of the Doctrines and Practices of Kashmir Shaivism