We use tension, primarily, to keep ourselves in the world yet separate from reality. And this is our all important distinction: the world as the set of all objects and their interactions, and reality as the energetic continuum that contains all worlds. (Reality always trivializes the worlds it contains.) Spiritual endeavor aims to experience reality, to relax into the continuum, to eventually leave the world and melt into the real. Our principles are just devices to help us achieve this.