Author: pmcrose

In meditation, we can discover the stillness that witnesses our life without judgment, with compassion and unconditional love.

Most of us are normally so fiercely and habitually critical and judgmental, though we may hate to admit it. However, there is a quality of the mind that is not so.

The witness is totally impartial and holds everything equally without judgment.

It is the unlimited support of unconditional acceptance.

With heart, it is compassion and the highest of loves.

Through meditation and yoga, we can begin to discover, explore, develop, and deepen our relationship with this quality of mind.

In yoga and meditation, as the thoughts slow, there is more space.

The mind becomes less crammed with activity.

In stillness, there is nothing, and in relative stillness, there is less of something.

More space, greater ease…

more room to breathe!

If you’re fortunate enough to experience nothing in meditation, you are really on to something.

There are moments in meditation when it is like tumbling off a cliff into an endless fall, not a scary, harrowing free-fall, but one that’s totally supported yet free. . . .

The ellipsis is the grammatical tool of infinite or endless space.

Explore the ellipsis of your mind!

In meditation, thoughts drift in and out like wisps of fog in the stillness of the night.

The still night air holds and surrounds the passing fog. Such is the mind to our thoughts.

Wisps of fog pass through the stillness of the night.

May your life become a love story, not a foggy-eyed, syrupy romance, but a real story moved by deep love of life and of our common and varied expressions of humanity, a story of compassion and caring.

As we practice our meditation and/or yoga, our breath and mind slows down.

Our usual flurry of thought and inner activity can start to settle…

and there’s more space.

Even a moment of space can be so invigorating and restorative.

We say “Silence is golden.”

Even a bit of gold can be so so precious.

Through our practices, even a bit of more space… even a bit of silence…

There’s something immensely satisfying in the space between the cricket chirps…

the space between thoughts, between breaths, between words,

between you and me in the pauses in conversation–

this space in itself which is endless

into which everything dissolves and from which everything rises.

According to yoga philosophy, we are but the contracted form of universal Consciousness.

Yoga and meditation are the incremental or gradual journey to the embodied knowing of this.

Through practice, we gain gradually deeper and varied experiences of this that increase our understanding. It’s no longer a mere philosophy of the mind or intellect, but a tangible and visceral experience.

It is, if you will, the real thing!

With prudence, take the next step knowing there will always be support.