In Meditation...

However rich the experiences may be which such meditation brings. For the
deepest possible experience of meditation is to empty consciousness of the
world-experience and thus to point out its unreality. But That which does the
pointing, and that which is having the experience, and the experience
itself--all, in the end, originate from the Real. The discovery of the unreality
of the world is useful, for it offers the needed complete detachment from our
bonds. But this cannot be the unique, the sole highest purpose of our existence,
for then there would be no need to continue existence in the body after the
discovery. A mystic must move on and seek the still farther realization which
shows the world under a new light and offers an entirely new standpoint for
understanding it. And this is that the uniquely real is not less present in the
world than in his meditation, only it is present in a different way. It is like
the dreamer who wakens to the fact that he is dreaming and who continues to
dream but knows all the time that it is a dream experience. In just the same way
the highest realization is that the Real is Consciousness--the pure, the
ultimate Consciousness--but this consciousness can take different forms and yet
still remain what it really is.