The mind is to be a reservoir of Light — free, ready to give color and form, ready to speak from Wisdom's Source. Silence is the opening note. The Indwelling Light illumines the heart and mind, loosening the sightless, stormswept self. The freeing of Light, of God's own Life within, is the means of self-expression — not self-filled expression — but God-like freedom.
~ from THE ANGEL OF THE PRESENCE by Elsie Nevins Morgan
I saw Nuri sitting in meditation so motionless that not even one hair moved. I asked, "From whom did you learn such deep meditation?" "I learned it from a cat waiting by a mouse hole. The cat was much stiller than I.
