Daily Meditation: Monday, October 12, 1998

People tend to think any dissatisfaction they feel can be …

10/12/1998

People tend to think any dissatisfaction they feel can be remedied at a physical level. They act as if this dissatisfaction came from the physical body and so they give their physical body something to eat, something to drink, to smoke, they walk it about and they lavish all kinds of pleasures upon it. But their physical body is full-up, saturated, it is suffocating and is complaining: ‘Stop, you'll be the death of me. And it's no good gorging me like this, it won't make you feel any better.' But people do not understand the language their body talks, and they stubbornly continue, telling themselves that perhaps this time they did not find what they were looking for, but maybe next time they will. Unfortunately the next time is no different; all they find is a void. But still they carry on. In reality the physical body needs very little. The complaints we hear within us come from our soul and our spirit, who never stop begging: ‘I need purity, light, space. I need to watch the Sun. I need to unite with God, to work for the advent of His Kingdom so that peace may one day reign among human beings.' These are the voices we must try to hear within us, and we must listen to their demands so that we may satisfy them.