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 Appreciation is Key
Suppose you're striving to grow through religious observances.
A lackadaisical attitude toward your practices, or toward a mantram, or a painting of
Christ or Buddha, for example, will result in continual separation from what another part
of your mind and heart say they are seeking. Don't you agree, from many observations, that
people in an atmosphere of good will draw closer together? Similarly, in good will you and
your meditation practices must become closer, more comfortable and intimate.To succeed
in meditation and the higher awareness it will give you, you must become conscious, appreciative
of what you are doing. To resent your practice as if it is an intruder, to yearn for
your time of meditation to be over, or to study your meditation practice with utter
boredom is to be in a state of ill will — or
certainly an absence of good will. You will not succeed.
Just as ill will makes people separate and grow farther and farther apart, you can
become more and more estranged from meditation and the peace of meditation. This division
creates a progressively greater distance between yourself and the whole field of higher
consciousness and a harmonious life as well.
Are you ready to contact your...
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