If you have a golf ball sized consciousness,
when you read a book, you'll have a golf ball sized understanding;
when you look out, a golf ball sized awareness;
and when you wake up in the morning, a golf ball sized wakefulness.
If you could expand that consciousness,
then you read the book, [you have] more understanding,
you look out, [you have] more awareness,
and when you wake up, [you have] more wakefulness.
When I started meditating, I was filled with anxieties,
filled with fears, kind of a depression,
and anger.
And I took this anger out on my first wife.
After two weeks of meditation, she comes to me and she says,
"This anger - where did it go?"
and I didn't even realize that it had lifted.
They have a saying:
"True happiness isn't out there. True happiness lies within."
And I always wondered, "Where is this within?"
And they don't say where it is.
And then they don't even say how to get to it.
There's lots of forms of meditation
but with transcendental meditation,
the key is to dive all the way in.
It's a huge realm between the surface of life
and this fundamental pure consciousness.
Now these negative things like anger
and depression and sorrow,
they're beautifulthings in a story
but they're like a poison to the filmmaker,
they are a poison to the painter,
they are a poison to creativity.
They're like a vice grip.
If you are super depressed, you can't hardly get out of bed
let alone have that creativity flowing.
People say got to have anger, you got to have an edge to create.
You got to know about anger.
You got to have energy, you got to have clarity to create.
You got to be able to catch ideas.
You've got to be strong enough to fight unbelievable pressure and stress in this world.
There's an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us
and it's right at the source and base of mind
right at the source of thought
and it's also at the source of all matter.
This pure consciousness is called by modern physics, "The Unified Field."
All of matter - everything that is a thing - emerges from this field
and this field has qualities like
intelligence, creativity, universal love, energy, peace.
Bliss is a thing in the unified field.
Bliss is the sweetest nectar of life.
Bliss is physical, emotional, mental, spiritual happiness
and you can vibrate with this bliss.
And it's not the intellectual understanding of this field
but the experiencing of it that does everything.
You dive within experiencing this field of pure consciousness
and you enliven it, you unfold it, it grows.
This field is a field of pure knowingness.
Intuition grows.
[You have] the ability to catch ideas at a deeper level.
The final outcome of this growth of consciousness is called enlightenment.
Enlightenment is the full potential of all of us human beings.
At that level of life, we are all one.
We're one.
