Living a life of meditation doesn't mean that one sits in lotus posture twice a day for 20 minutes with eyes closed silently chanting a mantra. Of course you may do that if you choose, whether as part of your "meditative" life or even the whole of it if that's the way you see it. Nothing wrong with that.
The way I see it is that the meditative life means to live life itself meditatively. Nor does this, however, mean that we go about our daily affairs in a certain psychological state of consciousness called "meditation." It means having become aware of the absoluteness of Awareness that makes possible all consciousness, manifest and unmanifest, intentional and non-intentional. It is this certainty and security of Self as such absolute Awareness that is "the stranger who has always loved you" as Rumi puts it poetically. It is living knowing you are loved by that "Stranger," perhaps God, that has always loved you. It is excursion, the journey outward away from home, searching; it is the return home to that place we never really left but "know it for the first time."
So to awaken to absolute Awareness is to find the Source of that happiness that enables being able to participate in a life of love with all people. This is the meditative life. Sitting in silence is beautiful. Living in the silent peace of the self that accompanies all experience of the world is heavenly. This Self of absolute Awareness remains untouched, even in forgetfulness, always yet returning to the Self, the self-same Eternal.
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