Meditating with mystics is an exploration of our interior space,
Guided gently by the words of inspired mystics from various traditions,
Assisted with brainwave entrainment and immersive soundscapes to take us deep.
This contemplative track utilizes 40 Hz gamma sounds,
Which has been shown in multiple human experiments to improve neuromodulation such that focus,
Cognitive function,
Math and musical performance,
Memory recall,
And dopamine lifting mood effects can all be significantly enhanced.
It also produces a very still mind.
The most significant results are observed over time,
Which research indicates is between 30 minutes and 1 hour daily.
We seed our contemplation with 15 minutes of teachings from Meister Eckhart,
13th century Christian theologian and mystic,
And then allow those seeds to bear their fruit through the space of a still mind and open heart.
Become aware of your breath.
Become absorbed in the sound.
Keep the words that suit your wisdom,
Release the rest,
And simply be.
If I had a friend,
And loved him because of the benefits which this brought me,
And because of getting my own way,
Then it would not be my friend that I loved,
But myself.
I should love my friend on account of his own goodness and virtues.
And account of all that he is in himself.
Only if I love my friend in this way,
Do I love him properly.
For the person who has learned to let go and let be,
Nothing can ever get in the way again.
The soul does not grow by addition,
But by subtraction.
There exists only the present instant.
A now which always and without end is itself new.
There is no yesterday,
Nor any tomorrow,
But only now,
As it was a thousand years ago,
And as it will be a thousand years hence.
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
Truly,
It is in darkness that one finds the light.
So,
When we are in sorrow,
Then the light is nearest of all to us.
Then the light is nearest of all to us.
The most powerful form of prayer,
And the one which can virtually gain all things,
And which is the worthiest work of all,
Is that which flows from a free mind.
The freer the mind is,
The more powerful and worthy,
The more useful,
Praiseworthy and perfect,
The prayer and the work become.
A free mind can achieve all things.
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you,
It will be enough.
But where is this true possession of God,
Whereby we really possess Him to be found?
This real possession of God is to be found in the heart,
An inner motion of the Spirit towards Him and striving for Him,
And not just thinking about Him always and in the same way.
For that would be beyond the capacity of our nature,
And would be very difficult to achieve,
And would not even be the best thing to do.
We should not content ourselves with a God of thoughts for,
When the thoughts come to an end,
So too shall God.
Rather,
We should have a living God who is beyond the thoughts of all people and all creatures.
That kind of God will not leave us,
Unless we ourselves choose to turn away from Him.
The most important hour is always the present.
The most significant person is precisely the one sitting across from you right now.
The most necessary work is always love.
Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world,
Or by running away from things,
Or by turning solitary and going to sleep.
To be full of things is to be empty of God.
To be empty of things is to be full of God.
God,
Who is faithful,
Allows His friends to fall frequently into weakness,
Only in order to remove from them any prop on which they might lean.
For a loving person,
It would be a great joy to be able to achieve many great feats,
Whether keeping vigils,
Fasting,
Performing other ascetical practices,
Or doing major difficult and unusual works.
For them,
This is a great joy,
Support,
And source of hope,
So that their works become a product and a support upon which they can lean.
But it is precisely this which our Lord wishes to take from them,
So that He alone will be their help and support.
In no way do our works serve to make God give us anything or do anything for us.
Our Lord wishes His friends to be freed from such an attitude,
And thus,
He removes their support from them,
So that they must henceforth find their support only in Him.
Between God and me,
There is no between.
God is at home.
It is we who have gone out for a walk.
The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me.
My eye and God's eye are one eye,
One seeing,
One knowing,
One love.
Wisdom consists in doing the next thing you have to do,
Doing it with your whole heart,
And finding delight in doing it.
There is a huge silence inside each of us that beckons us into itself,
And the recovery of our own silence can begin to teach us the language of heaven.
Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.
If you love yourself,
You love everybody else as you do yourself.
As long as you love another person less than yourself,
You will not be able to love God as you love yourself.
As long as you love another person less than yourself,
You will not succeed in loving yourself.
But,
If you love all alike,
Including yourself,
You will love them as one person,
And that person is both God and man.
Thus,
He is the great righteous person who,
Loving himself,
Loves all others equally.
But of God,
You can never have a sufficiency.
The more you have of God,
The more you desire.
If you could ever have enough of God,
So that you were content with Him,
Then God would not be God.
It is written,
They have become rich in all virtues.
Truly,
This cannot happen,
Truly,
This cannot happen unless they first become poor in all things.
Whoever desires to be given everything,
Must first give everything away.
There is a place in the soul where you've never been wounded.
Whoever possesses God in their being,
Has Him in a divine manner,
And He shines out to them in all things.
For them,
All things taste of God,
And in all things it is God's image that they see.
We must come to a transformed knowing,
An unknowing,
Which comes not from ignorance,
But from knowledge.
There is no need to look for God here or there.
He's no farther away than the door of your own heart.
Only those for whom God is present in all things,
And who make the very best use of their reason,
Know what true peace is and truly possess heaven.
Indeed,
The more we are our own possession,
The less we are God's possession.
It is not outside us,
It is all within.
