Eknath Easwaran

William James, the great American psychologist, which spells out the significance of this skill: “The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention over and over again is the very root of judgment, character and will. An education which should include this faculty would be the education par excellence.”

“Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?”

to reach for the highest you can conceive with everything you have, and never count the cost.

Reality is beyond all limitations, and there are paths to it to accommodate every heart.

May we light the fire of Nachiketa

That burns out the ego and enables us

To pass from fearful fragmentation

To fearless fullness in the changeless whole

You are what your deep, driving desire is. As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny

As a person acts, so he becomes in life. Those who do good become good; those who do harm become bad. Good deeds make one pure; bad deeds make one impure. You are what your deep, driving desire is. As your

Side by side, those who know the Self and those who know it not do the same thing; but it is not the same: the act done with knowledge, with inner awareness and faith, grows in power

I will initiate you. You have not flinched from the truth.”

In the world people think they can attain glory by having cows and horses, elephants and gold, family and servants, fields and mansions. But I do not call that glory, for here one thing depends on another.