Are you fearless?

"Can one meditate, can one’s mind become one-pointed without being fearless? Not possible... Fear is one of the  primal urges and it’s because of the sense of self-preservation. As long as you are aware of yourself, you are afraid of others, who is going to hurt you? But the day you don't have that thought you are free! Meditation then starts..." 

Swami Rama

Meditation: A search for our infinite capacity to be loved.

Meditation and the poverty of it is no form of self-rejection. We are not running away from ourselves, nor do we hate ourselves. On the contrary, our search is a search for ourselves and the experience of our own personal and infinite capacity to be loved. (John Main, The Gethsemani Talks)