The Spiritual Life Is A Call To

International War Is The Sum Total Of Millions Of Individual Wars, Raging In The Minds Of The People, Between What Is Selfish And What Is Selfless. To The Extent That You And I Develop Selflessness In Our Own Hearts, To That Extent We Contribute To Peace In Our Family, Community, Country, And World.

Wherever People Gather For Selfless Ends, There Is A Vast Augmentation Of Their Individual Capacities. Something Wonderful, Something Momentous Happens. An Irresistible Force Begins To Move, Which, Though We May Not See It, Is Going To Change Our World. In This Lies The Power And The Meaning Of Spiritual Companionship.

Through Meditation And By Giving Full Attention To One Thing At A Time, We Can Learn To Direct Attention Where We Choose.

There Is A Close Relationship Between A House Full Of Possessions And A Heart Full Of Desires, Between A Cluttered Closet And A Crowded Schedule, Between Having No Place To Put Possessions And Having No Priorities For Our Life. These Are Precious Clues. They Remind Us To Slow Down, To Live In The Present, To Reduce The Desires That Drain Our Vitality, To Clarify Priorities So We Can Give Our Time And Attention To What Matters Most. Tragically, In The Press Of Modern Life, We Have Managed To Get Backwards One Of Life's Most Vital Truths: People Are To Be Loved; Things Are To Be Used.

As Meditation Deepens, Compulsions, Cravings And Fits Of Emotion Begin To Lose Their Power To Dictate Our Behavior. We See Clearly That Choices Are Possible; We Can Say Yes Or We Can Say No. It Is Profoundly Liberating.