In opening your eyes at the end of your meditation period, if you feel an ease of being, expansiveness, peace and bliss, these are qualities you bring with you when your awareness extends outward again. Your peripheral vision expands. Your breath is more open. You took the shortcut to Self. It’s called Grace. Thank you, Baba.

— Gurudevi Nirmalananda

From Gurudevi’s full discourse “Sleep & Meditation“