Meditation ?!?!?!

Why meditate? Why now? You already know that you are way too busy. So busy that you have become a stranger to yourself. All of us have paid so much attention to the world around us, that we know nothing about the world within us. Our life has kept us running - succeeding, failing, winning, and losing - this is all we seem to know. When we are not socializing with our friends and family, we are socializing with the Internet or the television.
What happens when we become a stranger to ourselves? We lose our confidence. We get confused about why we are living such a hectic life. We feel empty inside. As our outer pillars of support crumble around us, we become afraid. Very afraid. We expect answers to magically come from heaven and solve all of our problems. We hope our politicians will solve all social ills, that the police will keep us safe. In short, we become so powerless that we begin to blame others for our troubles, and we expect others to take care of us. Peace and prosperity was just a wish, a mere desire, we never made it a priority and thus, we did not make it happen.
In ancient times, we used Mother Nature's herbs and fresh foods to help us heal. Then, for millennia, we ignored all of this. Today, modern medicine is re-awakening knowledge about herbs, nutrition, and natural healing. Why? Because ancient methods were effective and have a very long tradition of helping us. We are seeing today that they still work.
Ancient knowledge of meditation is also coming back. This inward science can lead us to the heights of spiritual wisdom and worldly success.
There is a true humanness to the science of meditation. All of us are aware of changes we could make to improve our lot in life, but we do not always act on them. This is not a modern dilemma; it is a human dilemma.
Meditation lifts us out of our false fantasies and out of our troubling trifles. Uplifted from these, we finally see the wonder and beauty of the human spirit.
“Meditation can do that which nothing else can do, it introduces you to yourself.”  -Swami Rama