Our practice of Transcendental Meditation, which is by way of sound, is really a meditation on the soundless; it is hearing the voice of silence. To do this one must transcend all forms of physical sound. Then, when one returns from the soundless to the field of sound, one then expresses a greater sensitivity to all of the subtle nuances of sound.

It is in meditation that the mind is in communion with virtue, or pure awareness, and by this process we become more virtuous, degree by degree.

Many people think that you can polish up, or dress up, a vice and make it respectable, but a vice made respectable is not a virtue. You cannot think yourself into virtue. One must become virtuous by taking the mind to absolute pure consciousness.

The mind in samadhi, or communion, is beyond all vice and there one discovers the innocent presence of virtue.

Those of virtue always have great inner strength and those of vice have no inner strength. It is the strength worked by the presence of innocent virtue that is called character.

It is only the virtuous mind that can communicate effectively and it is only the virtuous mind that can enter into the right relationship with life.

In virtue one discovers in oneself a tremendous source of energy. The very presence of virtue, untouched by thought and the thinker, releases, in one, inexhaustible energy. One who is devoid of this energy is often likely to become corrupted by the forces that impinge upon him.

One must always confront life from a position of strength and not from a position of fright. A person of virtue is one who is never diffident, or over confident. He is one who can approach life, endowed with inner strength, and have no fear of what lies ahead.