'If you wish to fully appreciate the beauty of a rose, don't try to add to the rose.  Remove that which obscures the pure vision of the rose and keeps you from experiencing it in its perfect roseness.  Similarly, if you want to purely experience your own spiritual nature, you must subtract, not add.  How can you add to what is already perfect?  It is simply a matter of recognition, of stopping the search for something to add to make you more, better, greater...' (Thomas in Waite, 2007, p171).

Waite, D. (2007). Back to the truth: 5000 years of Advaita. Winchester, UK: O Books.