Quotes About Meditation

"When you practice in meditation, you come to give yourself to it, and there is a response because your Teachers come to give themselves and that is the touch. That is where you touch each other. I give to you, you give to me and we share our mutual giving."

• Wisdom I, chap. 15, p. 183

Directives

"Do not think you can go off and meditate all day every day and find your purpose. You must go into the world and have it brought out of you."

• Greater Community Spirituality, chap. 18, p. 225

"To prepare for stillness, you must practice a certain kind of meditation, you must have a teacher, you must have a method and you must have a community.These are what are necessary."

• Wisdom I, chap. 35, p. 430

Misunderstandings about Meditation

"If you close your eyes in meditation and you say, 'I want to have contact with the Teachers. I want to have this question answered. I want to have certainty about this issue. I want to have a high experience.... I want, I want, I want,' then of course you don't find anything. So, there is disappointment immediately and then you say, 'Well, maybe if I give up all wants, I will get what I want,' and so it goes on and on."

"People often think in meditation that there are all of these realms and levels and all that sort of thing, but you know there is only relationship there. Whatever experience you have, it is because you are joining your mind with another mind in some way. Realms and all that do not matter. Relationship matters; intimacy matters. This is what generates Knowledge."

• Wisdom from The Greater Community, vol. I, chap. 15, p. 183