Meditation

"I decided to do Vipassana meditation, the formal ten day set, fourteen hours of meditation a day. The first four days were a struggle. Your mind goes around all of the things that were long forgotten. After day four, around day five, my mind started quieting down and went into a state of stillness. It was very present. For the first time, I understood what some of these mystics talk about when they speak of being fully present. When I stepped out into the garden, I could see everything, every dew drop, every leaf, every flower, every level of sparkle and color that I had never witnessed before because I was so distracted. In that quiet state, I was able to access a certain level of creativity. Ideas started coming up for products I could be developing. My mind had never been that creative. That same level of creativity is available to you. The stillness, when you ask a deep question like what is my true purpose in life, reveals it."