Meditation

[Guest guest]

"It doesn't matter what terms you use (words are the least reliable form

of communication), it all comes down to living in awareness. And then,

it becomes total awareness.

 

And what is it of which you become totally aware? You eventually become

aware of Who You Are.

 

Daily meditation is one way you may achieve this. Yet it requires

commitment, dedication--a decision to seek inner experience, not outer

reward.

 

And remember, the silences hold the secrets. And so the sweetest sound

is the sound of silence. This is the song of the soul.

 

If you believe the noises of the world rather than the silences of your

soul, you will be lost.

 

[Question:] So daily meditation is a good idea?

 

A good idea? Yes. Yet know again what I have just said here. The song

of the soul may be sung in many ways. The sweet sound of silence may be

heard many times.

 

Some hear the silence in prayer. Some sing the song in their work.

Some seek the secrets in quiet contemplation, others in less

contemplative surroundings.

 

When mastery is reached--or even intermittently experienced--the noises

of the world can be muffled, the distractions quieted, even in the midst

of them. All of life becomes a meditation.

 

All of life is a meditation, in which you are contemplating the Divine.

This is true wakefulness, or mindfulness.

 

Experienced in this way, everything in life is blessed. There is

struggle and pain and worry no more. There is only experience, which

you may choose to label in any way you wish. You may choose to label

all of it perfection.

 

So use your life as a meditation, and all the events in it. Walk in

wakefulness, not as one asleep. Move with mindfulness, not mindlessly,

and do not tarry in doubt and fear, neither in guilt nor

self-recrimination, yet reside in permanent splendor in the assurance

that you are grandly loved. You are Always One with Me. You are

forever welcome. Welcome home.

 

For your home is in My heart, and Mine in yours. I invite you to see

this in life as you will surely see it in death. Then you will know

that there is no death, and that what you have called life and death are

both part of the same unending experience.

 

We are all that is, all that ever was, and all that ever will be, world

without end.

 

Amen."

 

Typed from Conversations with God, Book 3, by Neale Donald Walsch, pages

164 - 166