Experience Higher Consciousness Through Meditation

Meditation on a regular schedule provides frequent opportunities for physiological and psychological rest, while freeing attention to explore more refined states of consciousness and to effortlessly experience spontaneous unfoldment of innate, spiritual qualities.
~Roy Eugene Davis, An Easy Guide to Meditation, CSA Press

Here Mr. Davis is guiding us to understand that meditation is for more than just stress relief—"physiological and psychological rest"—but its regular practice facilitates our experience of higher states of consciousness, beyond our regular waking state. It is here that we can touch into the place of peace and inner wisdom that is who and what we are at the core of our being. Some of the other spiritual qualities he refers to are compassion and love. These are the innate spiritual qualities of all beings, no matter what we may see on the outside. When the myriad thoughts in the mind quiet down in meditation we experience these qualities, carry that knowing into our day and are able to see them in others. From that place of inner knowing of what we are, we "live and move and have our being". This is living in the highest way.