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

while meditation demands discipline and will, the mantram requires only the effort needed to start it up and keep it going.

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.

As a novice-master, he advised his charges to forget the world they had left behind. Our goal, on the other hand, is to be “in the world but not of it”: to strive to move gracefully among all the activities of daily life without being ensnared by either outer things or inner desires.

We need to draw upon the power released in meditation to implement the words on which we are meditating.

When I took to meditation I made a number of far-reaching changes in my life, which naturally baffled a lot of my friends, who began to look askance at some of these changes. They were fond of me and thought perhaps I was losing my ambition and my drive. What I did was to try not to be affected by this, not in any way to be apologetic or to impose

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

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

Speed becomes a habit we do not know we have.

likeness of Thee. I must do my allotted task with unflagging faithfulness even though the eye of no taskmaster is on me. I must be gentle in the face of ingratitude or when slander distorts my noblest motives. I must come to the end of each day with a feeling that I have used its gifts gratefully and faced its trials bravely. O Lord, help me to be