' Observation '...

Again and again he will have the extraordinary sensation of looking down at the game of human life as from a peak-like mental elevation.

He will see the players--millions of them--vehemently struggling for trivial aims and painfully striving for futile ones.

He sees how paltry is the sum-total of each individual life-activity, how bereft of mental greatness and moral grandeur it is.

And, seeing, aspiration will re-dedicate itself to unfaltering devotion to the Quest within his own mind.



-- Notebooks Category 24: The Peace within You >
Chapter 3: Practise Detachment > # 217
Paul Brunton