Daily Meditation: Wednesday, December 31, 2008

In a few hours it will be New Year, and tomorrow when you …

12/31/2008

In a few hours it will be New Year, and tomorrow when you speak about today you will already be saying ‘last year’. Up until twenty-three hours, fifty-nine minutes and fifty-nine seconds, it will be ‘this year’, and as midnight strikes the new year will begin. One second, just one second, separates one year from the next! But there you are – you have to get to the last second. You have to pass through all the days of a year one after another to reach this last second. Well, you should realize that this is how man’s spiritual transformation takes place. In an instant he is totally renewed, regenerated. But it will have taken centuries and centuries of effort to arrive at this final moment. As with the old year, you will say of the period preceding this moment of regeneration, ‘It was the old life’, and as with the new year you will say of the new period that’s dawning, ‘This is the new life’. How long will you have to wait before you reach this final second? Don’t worry about it; it will come for each and every person. So be patient; you have to know how to wait, but while you wait you must work. 2004