Tomado de REFLEXIONS
ON THE PATH (1986) by Herbert B. Puriyear, Ph.D. Bantam Books Inc. Based upon the readins
of the Sleeping Prophet Edgar Cayce Pags: 192-210
In the face of the array of challenges which we as individuals, as a group, as a nation, are going to meet, there is going to be extraordinary fear, anxiety, panic and hysteria unless we have learned to practice the stillness. We have yet a little time to practice, but we do not know for how long. Perhaps we have a year or two or three in which to be free of pain, or free of economic challenge, or free of earth changes. We have a little time to get ourselves centered, to start practicing meditation and to start practicing the awareness of His presence. Let us not wait until the crisis is upon us; let us not wait until the physical pain becomes unbearable; let us not wait until the economic pressure makes us so hungry that it is no comfortable to meditate; let us not wait until the economic or energy shortage is such that the winters are too cold for us to be comfortable in our practice of the silence. Let us establish a centering now by being still and quiet through the practice oof meditation so that when the tests are more painful and the pressure is stronger, we will know how more surely find that quiet place.
Why be still? There is no knowing of God outside of His manifesting in our own inner awareness. The spiritual quest is not like a mountain with many paths up to the top; there is only one way to God-and that is The Divine must be manifested in the counciousness and then applied in the life of the individual. There is only one way: it is God or call it by whatever name-The Divine, the Living Spirit flowing through us in our lives, our conciousness and, most importantly, in our application.
Meditation properly applied is exactly that! Meditation is practicing awareness of the Presence. Meditation is practicing awareness of the flow of the Spirit through us. The prescription for times of crisis is to be still and know God. We can begin to work on this through the practice of meditation. Let us discuss some essential points regarding meditation. It is not meditation that does the work, nor a meditation technique that is the proper approach to God, but it is the Living Spirit working through us that effects the changes. Do not depend on meditation, depend upon God. Do not get caught up in worrying about the process of meditation; concern yourself rather with the awareness of Him by inviting and experience His presence. CONTINUE
