Maharaj; When you are not in a hurry and the mind is free from anxieties, it becomes quiet and in the silence something maybe heard, which is ordinarily too fine and subtle for perception. The mind must be open and quiet to see. What we are trying to do here, is to bring our minds into the right state, for understanding what is real.

Questioner. How do we learn to cut our worries?

Maharaj: You need not worry about your worries. Do not try to ‘be quiet’, do not make ‘being quiet’ into a task to be performed. Don't be restless about ‘being quiet’. Just be aware that ‘you are’ and remain aware. Don't say ‘Yes, I Am, what next?’ There is no ‘next’ in I am, it is a timeless state. The ‘I Am’ is a tiny seed, which will grow into a mighty tree.

God tells Moses at the burning bush ‘I am that I am’ and then instructs him to tell Pharaoh that his name is ‘I am that I am’. We need to learn how to feel ‘I AM ‘

You express this in the regular practice of meditation and in the daily sacrifice of longing for the known past, or fearing the unknown future. When you know these are of the mind only, you can go beyond them.

As long as you have all sorts of ideas about yourself, you can only know yourself through the mist of these ideas. To know yourself as you are, give up all ideas. You cannot imagine the taste of pure water until you abandon all flavouring.

Adapted >From ‘I Am That’ by Sri Nasargadatta http://www.kabbalahmeditation.org/books