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It’s a scene that has been repeated countless times on the thoroughfares of cities throughout the Western world – from …

If you were to ask them, you’d learn that these people are performing a type of meditation long encouraged and …

The Vedas, scriptures containing the timeless spiritual knowledge of ancient India, state that such an awakening process is desperately needed …

The Vedas compare the material body to the subtle forms we experience in dreams. While sleeping, we forget our normal …

The sages of ancient India therefore tell us that the goal of human life should not be to try to …

This search for the true self through the meditative process is not something recently discovered, nor is it in any …

The Search for the Self

The Greek philosophers Socrates and Plato held a view of man’s original nature quite similar to that of the Vedic …

Phaedrus, translated by Benjamin Jowett.

The very same thing was taught in Galilee four hundred years later by Jesus Christ. In the Gospel of St. …

John 6:63.

Mark 8:36.

Luke 17:21.

Describing his inner search for God through meditation, St. Augustine, great saint and eminent philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church, …

Confessions, translated by C. Bigge. London: Methuen and Company, Ltd., p. 244.

During the Middle Ages in Europe, there was widespread interest in meditation, with many saints and philosophers writing of their …

Imitation of Christ, translated by Leo Sherley-Price. Baltimore: Penguin Classics edition.

When one achieves this deep spiritual vision, his entire worldview is completely transformed, as in the case of St. Francis …

The Life of St. Francis. New York: Everyman’s Library, 1912.

The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James. London: Longman, Green, and Co., p. 388.