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Meditation — Stepping Beyond Our Thoughts and Discovering Ourselves What exhausts us most in life is not always the events that happen around us. Very often, it is the endless stream of thoughts, judgments, fears, expectations and interpretations that our own mind creates around those events. Something happens. That is simply an event. But our mind can create a hundred stories around it. “Why did this happen?” “Why did he speak to me like that?” “I should not have done that.” “What will happen tomorrow?” “Will I be able to cope?” One thought follows another. When we become trapped in this constant movement of the mind, we gradually stop living life itself and begin living inside our thoughts. This is why the greatest gift meditation offers us is not merely peace, but awareness . Meditation is not a magical practice that makes all thoughts disappear. Nor is its purpose to prevent thoughts from arising. Let the thoughts come. Let them go. The deeper practice of meditation is learning to...