Passage Meditation - A Complete Spiritual Practice: Train Your Mind and Find a Life that Fulfills (Essential Easwaran Library Book 1)

Meher Baba, a modern mystic of India, who explained: A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

The deliberate person acts promptly in the emergencies that demand it and acts in a more measured fashion at other times. In every case the response will be appropriate and freely chosen, not dictated by compulsion.

we can bring their presence into our daily lives.

We see just what we can be as human beings: our capacity to choose, to change, to endure, to know, to love, to radiate spiritual glory.

We simply cannot afford to pay the price of hurry, however attractive the packaging. The price is our very life.

When I say we need to be selective in our company, however, I am not talking about withdrawing into a little group and refusing to have any contact with people who do not do as we do. We should be courteous and friendly with everyone, aware of their feelings and points of view, and avoid being judgmental.

luminous figures like these in every religion can be living companions — much more real, much more influential, than flesh and blood friends whose lives are scattered.

all truly creative people know that no sharp line lies between work and other activities. Work should challenge us — be difficult, if you will — but that is no reason for us not to find satisfaction in it.

We are not mere victims of our environment, and we don’t have to go fast just because everybody else does and urges us to do it too.