A great quote on Shiva and Shakti

A great quote from my Guru on Shiva and Shakti. I have put it below and attached the author's picture, 

“On the strength of Svarupa-parinamavada, Veerashaivism conceives the spirit of God as absolutely perfect (Shiva) and infinitely dynamic (Shakti). Shiva is pure existence and pure existence is the characteristic of Reality. It indicates not only the negation of non-existence but also the negation of all forms of imperfect existence. Such a state of experience may appear as void or shunya to the men of normal or empirical experience, but that transcendent state of experience is the state of perfect fulfilment of all earnest endeavours for liberation from all limitations and realization of the Absolute Truth. Pure existence (Shiva) is pure consciousness (Shakti), consciousness is the dynamic aspect of Shiva, that is conceived and described as his Shakti. This Shakti is not conceived as any distinct attribute or quality or any special feature of Shiva. Shiva's Shakti is no other than Shiva himself. In this transcendent nature Shiva appears as if without Shakti, since she has no outer expression in that state. But in reality Shakti is not then altogether absent. The dynamic aspect of Shiva is then perfectly identified with and is distinguishable from his transcendent aspect. In his phenomenal self-expression the dynamic aspect is more predominant; Shiva then reveals himself as Shakti. The manifold self-expressions of Shakti in the spatio-temporal order are also essentially non-different from Shakti and hence from Shiva. The world process is conceived by Veerashaivism as Shiva-Shakti vilasa or sidvilasa; the spirit in playful garbs and the tidal wave of bliss and beauty.”

--H. H. Mahatapasvi Shri Kumarswamiji, Prophets of Veerashaivism, p. 43