Religion is realization: making the truths of the world’s great scriptures a reality in daily life.

Mystical literature differs from other forms of writing in that as our understanding deepens, we draw more from it.

“Even if you did nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your mind back and place it again in our Lord’s presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.” Then,

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.

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

Since children are less developed intellectually, we sometimes give them only a portion of our attention, believing that will satisfy their needs. We read a few paragraphs about the Middle East in a news magazine and then look up to say, “Oh, you’re building a castle. That’s nice.” Then we jump back around the globe. The divided mind becomes a mode

As I understand it, in suppression we force a wave of, say, anger below the surface level, where it acts destructively on our own bodies. Today we are assured that we do better to let negative emotions gush forth, however painful this may be for those around us, than to let them build up and stagnate within. But the mantram provides a third alterna

Meditation will do for you what it has done for all who practice it regularly: enable you to steer your car expertly.

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