I am 21,757 days old,(see Peter Russell's web site)... be intensely conscious of the present moment!...this is the very essence of meditation...create a gap of no-mind where you are highly alert with no thinking whatsoever...practice everyday with small things: washing the dishes,walking in the forest, sitting on a rocky crag, gazing at the bluest sky, feel Infinity...breathing is the shortcut to now...in the car, upon entering, relax, listen to the silence, breathe in..out..in..out..peace ...you are peace...you can measure your success by the amount of inner peace you feel within...this is a feeling realization!...simply learn to disidentify from your mind...every time you create gaps, the light of consciousness grows stronger...again, that's each and every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, you create a space for more consciousness to come in to fill the vacuum(get it?)...you now are able to smile at the voice in your head that had you dancing a puppet dance ...now you are the dance, life is the dancer, as our friend Eckhrt liked to say...resonate with this and may peace and love reign supreme in you, and from your eyes and heart let the rays of spirit flow out as a blessing to all of it , as it is right here , right now, this instant.... Be It!....Eternal friend, and Source, Eternal Stillness! your true Self...One Taste(form and formless together as One)...habsonfire