Desolation

 Meditation is about making a choice to do and relate, in spite of the desolation that comes with it.  Meditation strips away good feelings at times, because good feelings are simply that, good feelings, the emotional level.  Change takes place when we go through the desolation to a deeper place within the heart.  It is all about love.  You cannot love someone simply on emotional feelings.  They come and go.  And you cannot love someone unless it is a choice.  Covid left many people in silence and solitude, but it was forced and not chosen.  That was a forced desolation, not a chosen one.  Meditation is a choice each day.  Yes there will be good feelings, but they pass.  At some point, if we’re persist, we are taken, by a power beyond and within us, to a deeper place that seems all dark and empty.  Judge not.  It is really a door to transformation.