Monks In Red Robes With Saffron Coll

Meditate:  To contemplate; to keep the mind fixed upon something; to sit or lie down and come to a deep rest while still remaining conscious.  

I'm not sure I'm ever going to fully understand how meditation works.  I make the time to do it each day and I almost always feel better when I'm done - calmer, more accepting, that kind of shit.  My mind, to my thinking, is not cooperating.  It's very, very active, bouncing all over the place, all kinds of thoughts and impulses and urges trying to make themselves known.  

Let them go.  Let them pass through, without judgement, without trying to control them.  They are just thoughts.

Dude asked me to help him work through The Steps again.  He really wants my advice, he says, but I'm dubious.  I think he knows exactly what he wants to do and he'd like me to be there when he goes through the process he wants to go through.  Sounds good to me.  Anybody doing some reading and writing about The Steps is doing something worthwhile.  What do I know, anyhow?  My friend has been sober for a while so it's not like he's going to mess something up.