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

Going slow doesn’t mean achieving little. If your concentration is one-pointed, going slow means achieving much.

first. In a sense, it comes down to attention. When we are preoccupied with ourselves — our thoughts, our desires, our preferences — we cannot help becoming insensitive to others’ needs. We can pay attention only to so much, and all our attention rests on ourselves. When we turn away from ourselves, even if only a little, we begin to see what is re

This method has two characteristics. The first is the training of attention, which gradually draws together the scattered threads of what one thinks, feels, says, and does. In this process conflicts resolve, gradually bringing about the complete integration of personality.

How often we have been shown the same tired ideas: to smoke and drink is the mark of sophistication, to drive at dizzying speeds is the mark of courage, to have a new partner every day is the mark of masculinity or femininity, to use violence is the mark of strength, to be uninvolved is the mark of freedom. No wonder the mystics say our world is up

In meditation, the only equipment you really need is the will, and you can’t buy that through the mail.

Even without such a lamp every one of us can, through our love, be a radiant light in our home.

adrift in a world that denies the reality of anything beyond the senses.

We may not actually carry around a public address system, but most of us want our personality to be widely known and admired.

Strike a bargain with yourself — no meditation, no breakfast — and you won’t forget to meditate.

All of us begin meditating in less than ideal circumstances. But if we are giving our best to these eight basic disciplines, we can be sure we will get all the opportunity we need for spiritual development.