When attraction and desire are awakened—and especially within the romantic sexual dimension—two things happen simultaneously: we shine, and we also perceive the shining quality of our focus of desire—we start to see being ‘in the pink’. This is also why people’s pupils dilate. The pupils dilate in order to see more of the shining quality. This shining quality is the lustre of the primordial state as it manifests within the dimension of nirmanakaya.p225, Emailing the Lamas from Afar, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9653948-5-7