The Cosmos Within...

"The space you discover in meditation is not just a quiet place in your own head. It's a dimension of reality itself - a dimension of the cosmos. It's the interior of the cosmos. The interior of the cosmos is not inside that mountain- that's still the exterior dimension. The interior of the cosmos is your experience of consciousness. The exterior of the cosmos is matter.  It's what we see all around us, and what we can see if we look through a telescope- apparently we can see back to the earliest beginnings of our material universe. But the interior dimension is consciousness. The cosmos is not just 'out there'; it's 'in here.'" - Andrew Cohen