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THE DYNAMICS OF MEDITATION
to me how I react to the acts of the world. I have balance. I know how to live with myself "?
Each of you has a vast reservoir of energy. In fact, you are that energy which reveals consciousness. In meditation, you unlock this energy so you can grow. You begin to feel confident and happy. Now you may become nervous over a small thing like a job interview. But why do you worry? What can the interviewer do to you? He or she is a human being like you; once he or she came for an interview also. With this attitude you can go calmly and enjoy a conversation with that person or anyone else.
When you maintain this awareness and this way of thinking, you break barriers which you have erected. Slowlyyou realize that what was possible for any person in history is also possible for you. You are also in the line of history. You belong to the same species. You share the same energy, the same source, the same light. The only difference is that some have developed their full potentiality and others have not. Some have realized their strength to do so, and others have not.
In meditation we come from the circumference of our lives to our center. Each of us is an individual world. We act and interact with each other. We form relationships. The definition of a relationship is this action and interaction between two worlds. So far we have had time for everyone else-our children, our husband or wife, our boss, our colleagues and friends-but we have not taken time for the one who is working and relating to all of these people. These people are on the circumference. At the center there is one who pays attention to all. Consciousness is this center. Meditation means becoming
