"7. Feeling of Exaltation. That this feeling inevitably accompanies satori is due to the fact that it is the breaking-up of the restriction imposed on one as an individual being, and this breaking up is not a mere negative incident but quite a positive one fraught with signification because it means an infinite expansion of the individual....A wandering outcast maltreated everywhere finds that he is the possessor of all the wealth and power that is ever attainable in this world by a mortal being....But the Zen feeling of exaltation is rather a quiet feeling of self-contentment; it is not at al demonstrative, when the first glow of it passes away. The Unconscious does not proclaim itself so boisterously in the Zen Consciousness."
D. T. Suzuki
Zen Buddhism
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