Breakthrough!  Once I received Shaktipat, the old identities couldn’t limit me anymore.  Oh, I still did daughtering. I still did worker-bee. I still did pay-my-taxes, vote-in-elections. I still renewed my driver’s license when it was due.  But they were things I did, not…

—  Gurudevi Nirmalananda  

From Gurudevi’s full discourse “Open The Curtains“