Daily Meditation: Monday, December 27, 2010

Presence, inner - of those we love is more important than their physical presence

12/27/2010

A man and woman who love each other feel the need to meet, to be close to one another, to live together, all of which is natural. But if their relationship is lacking a true inner dimension, you can already predict that their love will end. Study yourself: when you feel the subtle, living presence of someone dear to you, you realize you do not necessarily need their physical presence to feel you are with them. If you strongly feel the need for a physical presence, it means you are distancing yourself from your inner world and are likely to meet with great suffering. For who can tell whether a time may come when you are deprived of the person you love? When you are inhabited by an inner presence, external circumstances have less of a hold over you. You can tell whether this is so when you think of those you love - if you feel as much joy as when you see them, you are free, and this joy never leaves you.