Meditation is just a courage to be silent and alone. Slowly slowly, you start feeling a new quality to yourself, a new aliveness, a new beauty, a new intelligence—which is not borrowed from anybody, which is growing within you. It has roots in your existence.
I feel as though the cardboard box of my own reality has been flattened and blown open. Now I can see the edge of the world.
Any assault on the borders of perception is going to seem rash at first.
The moments when something new has entered us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy embarrassment, everything in us withdraws, a silence arises, and the new experience, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it all and says nothing.
I am like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness - until one day the ability to feel is forced into them. And I say "Look! I have no hands!" But the people all around me say: "What are hands?
It's a very salutary thing to realize that the rather dull universe in which most of us spend most of our time is not the only universe there is. I think it's healthy that people should have this experience.
You're thrown to the side and then you think, oh, there's more to life than what we really can just see in front of us. There's something else going on.
Though I was careful never to mention it, I began to see a new dimension in everything that happened.
When you are away from the game and busy with other areas, you realize that the world does not revolve around baseball.
I didn't know I had a sense of limitation until I got into the greater world.
Revolutions are of no us;, it is necessary to work on transforming the brain: on sowing a different knowledge/awareness, on creating a new conscience, that is like a magic box full of brains.
