As levels of stress increase in modern life, many people are turning to the practise of meditation as a way of finding harmony, tranquility of soul, and of awakening dormant powers of spiritual potential. This work shows how medative images can be formed, and how we can gain control over our thoughts and our will by various simple exercises.
Teaching challenges teachers to develop both professionally and personally through the process of self-education. Jorgen Smit adresses the inner path of the teacher, the emerging human becoming who lives in every adult as well as in each child. Often born teachers, who light fires rather than fill buckets, work on deepening their teaching through meditation.
Throughout history, revolutions have challenged people to transform society on the basis of freedom, equality, and fraternity. Attempts are still being made to find a path beyond communism and liberal capitalism. Smit argues that individuals can and must take responsibility for developing real freedom in everyday life. He addresses the way rhetoric about equality can be transformed into reality. He looks at ways of liberating work from wage slavery and at the real, rather than the perceived, boundaries of the state, the economy, and voluntary activities.
Aims to enable readers to follow a meditative path leading to deepening insight and awareness of themselves and the world around them. Practical exercises for illuminating and strengthening thinking are described, for developing inspiration and intuition.