Along with faith comes the requirement for dogged persistence. At first meditation may bring you mild highs or some relief from suffering. But there may come a time - just as there does in the development of any skill - when there will be a plateau. You may be bored, discouraged, or even negative and cynical. This is when you will need not only faith, but persistence.
Ram DassIn an evolutionary perspective, the rational mind takes a certain distance and no further, & we must be able to transcend it.
Ram DassThe way you come to fully appreciate the infusion of the Spirit is to more and more come fully into the moment, where this moment is enough.
Ram DassI don't really believe anything I say. Because the nature of my work concerns the spaces between the words, rather than the words themselves.
Ram Dass