Wednesday, April 2, 2008

You must not be dependent on another for services that you can well do yourself...

You must not be dependent on another for services
that you can well do yourself. What is the use of
tiring out a servant in subserving your wishes and
yourself sitting lazily in meditation?

Engage in activity, devote yourself in worshipful acts,
do everything for the glory of God - that is far more
fruitful than the 'meditation' which you are relying on.

Just as a thermometer indicates the heat of the body,
your talk, conduct, and behaviour indicate your mental
equipment and attitudes, and show how high is the fever
of worldliness that afflicts you.

These have to be pure, untinged by passion of emotions like hate or pride