What If Meditation Isn’t About Escaping, But Returning?
Meditation is not about rising above life, but about returning fully to yourself and your experience.
There is a quiet misunderstanding
at the heart of many spiritual paths.
That meditation is about transcendence
in the sense of floating away
detaching,
escaping,
rising above the mess.
We imagine it as a kind of retreat
from the noise,
the pain,
the pull of the world.
But real meditation isn’t an elevator out of life.
It’s a descent.
A return.
A coming home.
Not to co…
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