The initial sensory observation touches our mental and emotional energy pools, creating movements

Although various energy centers exist within you, the one you intuitively know the most about opening and closing is your heart. Let’s say that you love somebody, and you feel very open in their presence.

To go beyond, you must keep going past the limits that you put on things. This requires changes at the core of your being.

Stress only happens when you resist life’s events.

some of the most beautiful poetry and music have come from people who were in turmoil. Great art comes from the depth of one’s being.

One of these great saints, Ramana Maharshi, used to ask, “Who am I?” We see now that this is a very deep question. Ask it ceaselessly, constantly. Ask it and you will notice that you are the answer. There is no intellectual answer—you are the answer. Be the answer, and everything will change.

Immediately, something changes in your heart. Your heart actually skips a beat.

If you can sit through these urges, you will see what caused them. If you can get comfortable with what you see, you will face the next layer of causation, and so on, layer upon layer.

consciousness back onto itself. You’re always contemplating something, but this time you’re contemplating the source of consciousness. This is true meditation. True meditation is beyond the act of simple, one-pointed concentration. For the deepest meditation, you must not only have the ability to focus your consciousness completely on one object,