Daily Meditation: Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Thoughts and feelings - their effect; example of the escalator

09/28/2010

You place your foot on the first step of an escalator: instantly, it starts moving and takes you to a higher or lower floor. What has happened? By stepping on it, you have simply cut off a beam of light, and interrupting this beam has set off a device enabling the enormous stairs, which weigh tons, to start moving. A similar process takes place in the inner life of human beings. Each one of their thoughts and feelings cuts off a ray somewhere, and machinery is set in motion. Often, instead of taking them to the upper floors of consciousness, the escalator takes them underground, where they are deprived of air, light, warmth and space. You think you are free to have just any thought or feeling, but be aware that each one acts as a trigger, the effect of which is to project you either up or down. So, do be careful!