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REALIZE WHAT YOU ARE:
When you realize this, you will discover the purpose of meditation: to get in touch with that Formless in you. The insight comes that this vibrant conscious energy has been covered up by your own negativities. So covered, it does not get light or fresh air.
This discovery leads you from the step of (1) realizing what you are to (2) recovering yourself. Just as you recover your health after realizing that the cause of your illness is in you, so you recover your natural energy when you become aware of the layers which cover you. You will see that sadness, depression, anger, greed, pride and deceitfulness are all outside coverings. They are not natural to you. They have stifled your natural latent power.
The process of recovery is a consistent and persistent practice. It is a continuous throwing off of the covers to get fresh air. It is getting a fresh connection with your flow of inner strength. That is meditation. It is not instant.
We must work at recovering, little by little, so that we return to our original nature. Once we have opened the wounds of our psyche to the fresh air and light, we must take care that they heal properly and completely. We must seal up the gaps and doubts of mind by filling ourselves with positive vibrations.
Without realizing, we cannot recover. And without recovering fully, we cannot go on to the third step: Retain. In order to retain, let us flood the mind with the light of meditation and fill in the holes in our thinking with knowledge, understanding and experience.
Say to yourself, “I am the microcosm of the macrocosm. As the universe moves I must move. In the
