A most valuable practice for our idle hours is to set apart a period of planned quietness for reflection, meditation and contemplation. According to Dr. Radhakrishnan "When the Upanishads proclaim the great truth "THAT ARE THOU", when the Buddha teaches that each human individual has in him the power to grow into a Buddha, when the Jews say that the spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, when Jesus tells his hearers that the Kingdom of God is within, and when Muhammed affirms that God is nearer to us than the very artery of our neck, they all mean that the mot imortant thing in life is not to be found in anything external to man but in the hidden strata of his thought and feeling"
A looking inwards into the depths of our being, a looking upwards to the divine Author of our being in meditation and contemplation, can give poise rhythm and integration to our life.
P.T. Chandy (Art of Living)
(Taken from the monthly magazine "Ideas Exchange), June 2011)
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