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Meditation Isn't Just Something We Do To Make Ourselves More Peaceful And To Take Some Of The Stress Out Of Our Lives. We Do It Because It's The Only Direct Experience We Can Have Of Knowing God. Because God Is That Which Is Indivisible. Everything Else In The Universe, In The Physical World, Is Divisible. Up And Down, Good And Bad, Right And Wrong, Male And Female, And So On. But That Which Is Indivisible In Our Physical Experience Is Called Silence. And When You Get Into Silence, You're Coming To Know The Indivisibleness Of Your Life - And That's Conscious Contact.

Hidden In All Good Fortune Is Misfortune. And In All Misfortune Is Good Fortune. It's Never Going To Stay The Same As Long You Are In The World Or Unless You Die While You Are Alive And Become An Enlightened Zen Master. But Those People Don't Exist. When You Study Their Lives, You Find That They Had The Same Struggles As The Rest Of Us. It's Not So Much About Being Able To Always Have Calm. Calmness Isn't Just The Absence Of Noise Or Troubles. It's Being Able To Find Calm Within Yourself When Other Stuff Is Going On.

Would I Rather Be Right, Or Would I Rather Be Kind?

You're Able To Love Others, To Give To Others, And Do For Others By Giving And Doing For Yourself First.

I've Been An Exercise Maniac Most Of My Adult Life, Running Marathons And Triathlons, Doing That As A Regular Way Of Life. I Ran Eight Miles A Day, Every Day For 29 Years.