MEDITATION, The unifier

Meditation makes you one.

The outward-oriented mind sees the many, sees fragments. The meditative, inward-turned mind increasingly sees reflected in the outer the unity it experiences within.
 

The Goal of Meditation

The goal in spiritual meditation is a universal communion with the Divine free of personality particulars, and to resemble the nature of God as much as possible.

The Supreme Being will not resemble us! We have to make the change. We have to denude ourselves of all that is fleeting and impermanent. God’s nature lies in Essence, in the Eternal.
 

We Have It All Now!

We seek fulfillment in so many things and fail to find it in any.  Love ... Marriage ... Parenthood ... Art ... Wealth ... Power....  What will fulfill us?

There is something―namely, the knowledge that nothing will fulfill us, that we need no fulfilling, that we have it all now!

Spiritual meditation reinforces the idea of "having it all now" ... discovering this within.
See Article: WE HAVE IT ALL NOW!

the way to the true self

The self that comes to the fore effortlessly, by nature, with no volition on our part cannot be the true Self of which we have heard―but is the false self!  Consequently, when we find ourselves struggling against new tendencies we would like to inculcate, it is the old, ingrained, false self that is behind the resistance. The reason: we have not yet forged a place in the brain’s channels for the movement of the new tendencies to become assimilated.

Meditation is the chief means to forge these new pathways.

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PRAYER: ITS OWN REWARD

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THE WAY BACK TO GOD-CONSCIOUSNESS

If we are part of God, we need a technique to make us know it and remember it.

Practicing meditation, instead of non-meditation as a way of life, is the means. As the unexamined life we are familiar with leads us to bondage, the other―the meditative, aware life―will naturally lead to Freedom.

We are like creatures in a dream ... the Dream of God.

Let us so live that we come awake at last ... and find our way back to God-consciousness!

A LOVE AFFAIR!

Meditation is a love affair with oneself!

Walt Whitman wrote: "I did not know I contained so much goodness"―and so much joy, love and beauty.... The self you love in others is the Self you love in yourself―the Atman-Self, the Soul.

MEDITATION: THE PRACTICE OF PERFECTION

It is through meditation that we first begin to practice a new character and a new consciousness.

 

CONTEMPLATE THE WONDER

Do not cheat yourself of yourself. What you truly are is your best gift to yourself. Do not lose the treasure.

The mystic moment comes to reassure you that Life is a miracle―being alive, being here, being where you are, what you are ... all of it eternally wonderful. Grow quiet and still and contemplate this wonder.

               See a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower.
               Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour.*

How? By quieting, silencing, stilling the mind. Go into the great silence within―that is MEDITATION.
                                                                                 
* From William Blake's poem, "Auguries of Innocence."

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"If you asked me about meditation, I could have instructed you and advised anyone to practice even though they do not possess the virtues, for this is the first step to obtain them all; it is vital for all Christians to begin this practice."
                                                   - St. Teresa, The Way of Perfection

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           Note: All "Words of Wisdom" are quotations from Paul Hourihan, unless otherwise noted.