In the final step of meditation, all ideas fall away like leaves in the autumn

Painting by Aert van der Neer

In the final step of meditation, all ideas fall away like leaves in the autumn.

You come from a world you know you have participated in creating.

Now you must begin with yourself, not with the alteration of the system, of the outer world.

It means, not looking for a new leader, new system, new philosophy, new gurus, but looking at yourself as you are.

You must, as a life artist, be ready to paint with the colors of life, observe yourself as you would observe your face in a mirror.

Life is a process of relationship. There is no life without relationship. Relationship with people, flowers, trees and stars. 

Relationship with the eternal Thou behind the face of life.

So, you must begin to inquire there, to ask in a meditative-existential way: 

"Who am I?"