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INSPIRATION
INNER SILENCE
Unless you develop inner stillness and a deep sense of inner peace, you will always be caught up in the distractions of outer events. Quietness within yourself allows you to move beyond the on-going chatter of the mind. The mind is a wonderful tool that can aid you in becoming aware of exactly what you need to do at any given moment. All the great spiritual teachers have taught that you need to move beyond the limitations of the mind to a space of nothingness. In the nothingness your awareness can expand and insights and inspiration can enter your consciousness. Meditation is the way to achieve the state of aware nothingness.
There are many different ways to meditate and you may meditate for different reasons. Visualization is a very useful tool but it is not the same as delving into the depths of silence, which can reveal the real, true self. If you begin your practice with a period of silence, for approximately 20-30 minutes, you will create a good foundation, and then you can move on to incorporating other techniques and visualizations if you wish.
As you reach down into the depths of yourself, you start to tap into the unconscious, and you begin the long and arduous task of cleansing the unconscious. This is very important work, for without it, you cannot reach to higher levels of consciousness even if you have the occasional transcendent experience or glimpse of the divine. Your unsorted psychological stuff, your unfinished business will keep coming up and getting in the way, until you learn how to release it on a daily basis and also to release it from your bodies as well. It is for this reason that when you first practice meditation, you may feel you are not making much progress whereas in fact you are. You are clearing and cleansing, creating a new sacred space for the divine to come in.
In the silence all can be made known, in time everything becomes clear. You start to understand why certain things happened and to acknowledge what you learnt from those experiences. You also recognize the importance of letting go and not holding onto the past, otherwise you lock your energy in the past and cannot fully live the present.
With constant practice, you can go beyond the masks of illusion and drop the veils. You can then discard the burdens you have been carrying and move on but stand steadfast in the brilliance of the divine light.