Harmony Quote

“Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here I am right within you. Not in temple nor in mosque. Not in Kaaba nor Kailas. But here right within you am I.” 

– Kabir

Many have begun the spiritual search while still suffering from severe personal problems. Saint Augustine was deeply embedded in the life of the world and pulled himself free only after great anguish of mind. Others suffered physically. Saint Therese of Lisieux endured the constant pain of tuberculosis. So there is no need for any of us to feel downcast about our situation or the particular difficulties we face, provided we do everything we can to purify our mind. 

Meditation is essentially a discipline for slowing down the furious pace of thinking; if you can gradually bring your mind to a state so still that no movement, no thought can arise except those you yourself approve, your mind will have become pure. We have no need to teach pure motives to the mind. All that is necessary to make the mind pure is to undo the negative conditioning to which it has been subject to; then we will be left with pure unconditional awareness.

(From ‘Words To Live By’ by Eknath Easwaran, founder of the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation, copyright 2005; reprinted by 

permission of Nilgiri Press, P.O. Box 256, Tomales, Ca 94971, www.bmcm.org.)