Protect yourself with meditation!

This statue which is half perfect and half destroyed by time and conditions comes from the Antikythera Shipwreck.

I saw it at the Archaelogical Museum in Athens last year and was struck by the way the perfect part had remained so unblemished although it had been  at the bottom of the sea for nearly 2000 years.  You see the Antikythera had sunk somewhere between 60 and 50 BC !  and nothing from it had been touched until 1901.  I am showing it to you  now because it's condition is analogous to the way meditation preserves the fine qualities of the soul.  The right side which is perfect was buried in the sand and the left side of the sculpture was in the sea.   I wonder if you believe me that the soul can be preserved  by meditation when everything we know about anyone is so much on view.  And yet, don't you really know that your innermost part is quite quite still if you let it and that it will not age or suffer decay if you allow yourself time to realise it.  Two thousand years is a long long time and see how he is calling out his message to us still.