Meditation is not an escape. Meditation is the acceptance of life in its totality, with a view to transforming it for the highest manifestation of the divine Truth here on earth
Interpretation
Meditation helps us fully accept life and aims for personal and spiritual growth.
This quote emphasizes that meditation is a practice of embracing life as it is, rather than fleeing from it. By accepting all aspects of existence, individuals can transform their experiences and elevate their consciousness toward a higher spiritual truth, ultimately benefiting not just themselves but the world around them.
In practice
In a workshop on personal development, a speaker might quote this to encourage attendees to embrace their current lives.
True meditation can never be done with the mind. Very often we make a mistake when we say that we are meditating in the mind and utilising the mind. Real meditation is done in the psychic being and in the soul. It goes hand in hand with flaming aspiration, the burning flame that wants to climb up to the Highest.
At last _x000D_ _x000D_ He is healed of his self-doubt._x000D_ _x000D_ Now what is happening ?_x000D_ _x000D_ He is awakening_x000D_ _x000D_ To his souls ecstasy-sun.
Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence. It reveals. It reveals to the aspirant that matter and spirit are one, quantity and quality are one, the immanent and the transcendent are one. It reveals that life can never be the mere existence of seventy or eighty years between birth and death, but is, rather, Eternity itself.
The word 'yoga' means skill - skill to live your life, to manage your mind, to deal with your emotions, to be with people, to be in love and not let that love turn into hatred.
Enthusiasm Rules his inner world. Determination Rules his outer world. Therefore Happiness has become His real name.
I am very happy Because I have conquered myself And not the world. I am very happy Because I have loved the world And not myself.
Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.
Humility can weep over other men's weaknesses, and joy and rejoice over their graces.
But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder.
. . . is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.
I understand the law through the operation of which my own character is developed from my own acts and thoughts; therefore, I will guard with care all that goes into its development.
Actions are but lifeless forms whose soul is the secret of sincerity in them
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