From Attention and Love 1, Lauerence Freeman, Meditatio Talks Series 2017 A
I have spoken on several occasions about the levels of consciousness that meditation takes us through, and exposes. As soon as we begin to meditate, we become more aware of ourselves, more self-aware, more conscious of how we are made, of how the human mind and the human body and the human person really operates. This is an aspect of self-knowledge. And this self-knowledge, which can be very lacking in an attention-deprived society and culture like ours, this self-knowledge is so important for humanity. Because without it, we don’t know God. And knowing God is the life of the human being.
St Irenaeus said, ‘The glory of God is the human being fully alive.’ And the life of the human being, is the vision of God. God is glorified in the human being. And that happens when the human being realises his or her full potential, becomes fully alive through all the experiences that life throws at us, through all the phases and different stages of our lives. And that life that we expand and fulfil is the vision of God, is the knowledge of God, is our interplay with God, eventually is our union with God. So it is a kind of a dance. At first it seems as if you have got two people in the dance, but as the dance really gets going you realise there is only the dance. The dance is the love of God.
From Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi, Talk 197.
“The ‘I-thought’ is the root-thought.
If the root is pulled out all others are at the same time uprooted.
Therefore seek the root ‘I’, question yourself ‘Who am I?’; find out its source.
Then all these will vanish and the pure Self will remain ever.”
