Awaken the Power Within You

 

“According to the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, the practice of meditation adds no special powers at all. All the powers are always present within us, but they are lying blocked (Sutra IV.3). When a farmer wants to irrigate his field , he does not create water, nor does he push it into the field. He simply raises the sluice gate that was blocking the flow, and the field is automatically irrigated. The blocks we have placed in our minds are simply removed in meditation so that the inner forces begin to function, and all our faculties come to their fullest possible growth.”

-Pandit Usharbudh Arya (who later became Swami Veda Bharati), Mantra & Meditation, in the Forward, pages xv - xvi

Set aside time each day for prayer.

 Begin your quiet time by relaxing your body

opening your mind to an awareness of God.

Breathe Deeply, 

knowing that you are in the presence of God and 

The presence of God is within you.

Let go of your concerns and

know that all is well.

Fr John Main OSB, “Religious Love,”

Fr John Main OSB, “Religious Love,” THE WAY OF UNKNOWING (New York: Crossroad, 1990), pp. 115-116.

By opening our hearts to love at the deepest and most silent level of our being, we are not repressing human knowledge or rejecting human values or relationships. On the contrary, all of these are enlightened; that is, we see them in a new light, in a transcendent light. We see a new light in them. The extraordinary thing about the Christian message is that this light is not less than the light of Christ, the light who is Christ. The call to us to enter this light is for each of us to know from our own experience. . . .that Christ’s light shines in our hearts and that the first task of our life is to be open to it, to be bathed in it, to be made whole in it and so see with it. [. . . .] Meditation is our journey to that light.