When We Meditate Every Morning We Are

Wisdom May Be Perennial, But To See Its Relevance We Must See It Lived Out.

International War Is The Sum Total Of Millions Of Individual Wars, Raging In The Minds Of The People, Between What Is Selfish And What Is Selfless. To The Extent That You And I Develop Selflessness In Our Own Hearts, To That Extent We Contribute To Peace In Our Family, Community, Country, And World.

Excitement And Depression, Fortune And Misfortune, Pleasure And Pain Are Storms In A Tiny Private, Shell-bound Realm - Which We Take To Be The Whole Of Existence. Yet We Can Break Out Of This Shell And Enter A New World.

A Calm Mind Releases The Most Precious Capacity A Human Being Can Have: The Capacity To Turn Anger Into Compassion, Fear Into Fearlessness, And Hatred Into Love.

Having Come To Realize In The First Stage Of Meditation That We Are Not Our Bodies, In The Second Stage We Make An Even More Astounding Discovery; We Are Not Our Minds Either.