People in the Middle East may consider the U. S. an evil hegemony that has tainted their culture, but when I look at the growth of racial and ethnic tolerance and understanding in my generation in the U. S. , and see those sentiments make it around the world, it makes me feel proud.
Meditation is not of the body, not of the mind, not of the soul. Meditation simply means your body, your mind, your soul, all functioning in such a harmony, in such wholeness, humming so beautifully. . . that they are in a melody, they are one. Your whole being - body, mind, soul - is involved in meditation.