Eventually the natural state becomes so natural that it really doesn't require effort. We abide in it perpetually. But it's only by modifying the mind and one's perception of life continually for a number of years that that occurs, with a grand sense of brightness, seeing and innocence that escapes humanity. We are continually seeking our own innocence. We want to recapture it for eternity. It's in there, but we lose touch with it.

We have to continue to see our own innocence in a world that doesn't care for innocence, which doesn't even acknowledge the divinity of existence. In a world of beings gone mad with their societies and their structures and their technologies, but who are completely oblivious to the religious experience of every given moment.

- "The Natural State", Tantric Buddhism