The mind is constantly active. While you are active meditation is impossible, because meditation means a deep inactivity. You can know yourself only when everything has become still, silent and quiet. Only then, in that silence, do you happen to encounter yourself. Otherwise, in activity you are so much occupied with something or other, you cannot feel your own presence. You go on forgetting yourself.
Activity means being related with something outside. You are active because you are related with something outside, doing something outside. Inactivity means you have returned home, you are not doing anything.
Activity is gross, inactivity is subtle. And your presence is the most subtle thing in the world. To feel that, you will have to cease, you will have to be absent from everywhere so that your total presence comes in and you can encounter yourself.
