"What I’ve Learned From Meditating"

Because my thoughts are torturing me right now, even though I'm safe at home in a warm bed and everything is fine--

From http://www.realization.org/page/doc0/doc0081.htm:

5. Everything of which you can be aware is a mental event, including the "me" who thinks it's aware.

6. That "me" is the thought that Ramana Maharshi says is last to go, his "I-thought." His method aims at suffocating that thought by placing all attention on it.

13. This instruction sums it up: don't daydream. Or does it?

14. And this one too: be aware. But it makes a difference whether you are aware of something or of anything.

15. You can play a lot of games with meditation that are pure wastes of time.

19. Small children hum like cats when they eat. The memory is worth recovering.