Passages from The Silent Teaching

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 thta life can never be the mere existence of seventy or eighty years between birth and death. Our birth is a significant incident in God's own existence. And so is our death. In our birth, life lives in the body. In our death life lives in the spirit.

When we concentrate, we focus our attention on one particular thing. But when we meditate, we feel that we have the capacity deep within us to see many things, deal with many things and welcome many things all at the same time. When we meditate we try to expand ourselves, like a bird spreading its wings.

The best way to become one with soulful music is to have the firm inner conviction that while you are breathing in, the breath is immediately entering directly into the soul. And with the breath, you have to feel that the Universal Consciousness, divine Reality, divine Truth is also entering.

Separate yourself from the mind and observe the mind. You can read hundreds of pages or talk to hundreds of people, but you will not get illumination. So when you think of what the mind has given you, think at the time of the thing that you really need most and you will see that the mind has not fulfilled this need.

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