When powerful light is concealed and clothed in a garment, it is revealed. Though concealed, the light is actually revealed, for where it not concealed, it could not be revealed. This is like wishing to gaze at the dazzling sun. Its dazzle conceals it, for you cannot look at its overwhelming brilliance. Yet when you conceal it - looking at it through screens - you can see and not be harmed. So it is with emanation: by concealing and clothing itself, it reveals itself.
- Moses Cordovero
With the appearance of the light, the universe expanded.
With the concealment of the light, the things that exist were created in all their variety.
This is the secret of the act of Creation.
One who understands will understand.
- Shim'on Lavi
The Avadhut lives alone in an empty hut;
With a pure, even mind, he is always content.
He moves about, naked and free,
Aware that all this is only the Self.
- Dattatreya's Song of Avadhut Gita