<p>MEDITATE on the sky and whenever you have time just lie down on the ground; look at the sky. Let that be your contemplation. If you want to pray, pray to the sky. If you want to meditate, meditate on the sky, sometimes with open eyes, sometimes with closed eyes. Because the sky is within too; as it is big without, within it is the same. We are just standing on the threshold of the inner sky and the outer sky and they are exactly proportionate. As the outside sky is infinite, so is the inner sky. We are just standing on the threshold, either way you can be dissolved. And these are the two ways to dissolve. If you dissolve in the outside sky then it is prayer, if you dissolve into the inside sky then it is meditation, but finally it comes to the same: you are dissolved. And these two skies are not two. They are 80 The Orange Book The fragrance of a flower 81 two only because you are, you are the dividing line. When you disappear the dividing line disappears, then in is out and out is in.</p>
