Perception not only defines existence but it creates existence. It gives it form. Without perception there is no existence.
Frederick LenzYou have to learn to be very, very gentle to start with - with yourself eventually. Meditation is not something that you force. It is something that happens to you because life gives you a gift.
Frederick LenzThe directions for meditation that Sri Krishna gives are very exacting. He tells Arjuna exactly how to get past all the things that cause suffering and transient pleasure to something that is perpetual ecstasy. His directions are that exact.
Frederick LenzSome people meditate because they are sick and tired of their life, of the world, of the way people abuse each other and abrogate each other's freedoms.
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