a better authority on stillness

Owing to having nothing positive to report from my own practice other than partying is great fun and that seeing old friends is near to being blissful, I am using the words of Marsilio Ficino to convey the message about why meditation is conducive to real connection.
"If a ray, descending from God Himself to the soul on the perpendicular, lights upon a soul set aslant at an irregular angle, it bounces off sideways, and naturally does not reveal God, but some empty flash in the soul... But if it has found a soul that is inwardly level and horizontal, it springs back straight to God and takes the soul with it to the happy embrace of its own object and end, where the mind at last enjoying God, enjoys itself also, that is, finding itself for itself in the Ideal Form."
Quoted from the History of Angels by Valery Rees

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