Opening to Meditation by Diana Lang

Author:Diana Lang
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781577313557
Publisher: New World Library

Most of us don’t know how to be alone. We’re afraid of the dark when we’re little, and we’re afraid of the dark in ourselves when we grow up. We learn to fill up all the dark spaces with TV and newspapers and drugs and busyness and anything we can think of, anything not to be alone. But if you can examine the word alone it comes from the compound word all-one, and there’s a big difference between the words alone and lonely.

When we meditate we enter into ourselves. Sooner or later, we discover something very precious. We touch upon the diamond of our heart. Sometimes there’s mud all over it, but don’t let that fool you — it’s still a diamond. The mud is our shame, our pain, our beliefs of unworthiness and separateness. These are all common misconceptions of the ego. It shrouds our light.

When we meditate we discover that we are not alone. We find our deep connection to the whole of life, and we come to know that we are all one. We are loved. We are good. We are forgiven.

Every time you choose to be present, you become more aware of the most expansive, highest part of you. This ever-reaching ability is what makes humanity special. We reach. We aspire.

Look at how magnificent we are! We reach the stars. We fly like angels. Who else but us would try to fly to the moon? We are beautiful dreamers, seekers, visionaries, and inventors, and we change the world.

And best of all, we have the great capacity to wonder. That’s what I love about us most. We wonder! We say What if? Now what? Why? What’s next? We are always growing, endlessly evolving.

Meditation is filled with wonder. It is constantly spiraling us inward and upward, lifting us to higher and higher realms of understanding, creativity, and love. Meditation teaches us how to be present to the wonder of the moment. We sit, quiet and alone, but then we come to discover we were never alone at all. We are all taking this journey together — all finding our way home.

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