Meditation | Ahiah

Spiritual Practices

Meditation enables us to be aware of our Divine Unity (oneness with the Divine)

Meditation enables us to slow down our habitual thinking so we can begin to see patterns of creation and thereby to tap into the great expanse of God/Life/Love within us.

Meditation is not as hard as some people feel. But this depends on the type of meditation that we choose to practice. For some it is a practice that calls us to years of work. Like going to the gym consistently and seeing results in a few months, this is also true for meditation. You will experience more energy, peace, freedom of thought and clarity. It is said that for as vast as the outside, physical world and cosmos is . . . the inner world is even greater.

Meditation describes practices that self-regulate the body and mind, thereby affecting consciousness, spiritual connectedness via mental events by engaging a specific attentional set.... regulation of attention is the central commonality across the many divergent methods.

Even the most beautifully sounding musical instrument can fall out of tune once in a while. The same is true for our minds and our spiritual life. Whether we struggle to focus, battle with stress or get tangled up in too many thoughts, sometimes – for whatever reason – we simply fall out of tune. On one hand your mind is a finely tuned, delicate and complex instrument, while on the other hand, it doesn’t come with an owner’s manual.

Meditation enables us to slow down our habitual thinking so we can begin to see patterns of creation, open our consciousness to divinely inspired inspiration and thereby to tap into the great expanse of God/Life/Love within us.

Meditation is not as hard as some people feel. But this depends on the type of meditation that we choose to practice. For some it is a practice that calls us to years of work. Like going to the gym consistently and seeing results in a few months, this is also true for meditation. You will experience more energy, peace, freedom of thought and clarity. It is said that for as vast as the outside, physical world and cosmos is . . . the inner world is even greater.

"Such is the power of right thinking that it cancels and erases everything unlike itself. It answers every question, solves all problems, is the solution to every difficulty. It is like the Sunlight of Eternal Truth bursting through the clouds of obscurity and bathing all life in a celestial glory. It is the Absolute with which we are dealing and nothing less! ~ Ernest Holmes

“Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.” ~ Voltaire

“Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.”

~ Thomas Carlyle

“The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.” ~ Thích Nhất Hạnh

“The Way to do is to be.” ~ Lao Tzu

“To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.” ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.” ~ Patanjali, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

“I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

“You exist in time, but you belong to eternity- You are a penetration of eternity into the world of time-You are deathless, living in a body of death- Your consciousness knows no death, no birth- It is only your body that is born and dies-But you are not aware of your consciousness-You are not conscious of your consciousness-And that is the whole art of meditation; Becoming conscious of consciousness itself.” ~ Osho