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CHAPTER VI
Ājnā—The Eye of Inner Wisdom
How does one get away from the endless repetition of daily existence? Day after day, year after year, we get up in the morning, bathe, eat, drink, take the car out of the garage or wait for the bus, go to work, return home, and so on. We have repeated these same activities twenty, a hundred, a thousand—innumerable--times until they all seem nothing more than part of a monotonous effort for survival. People are bored, tired of themselves. Why? How can we transform a tedious existence into the vivid, joyful experience of life?
If we reserve some time to be alone with ourselves and delve into the depths of our being, we will begin to catch glimpses of that higher Self. These glimpses reveal our inner evolution, our gradual upward movement. Then life is worth living because we see that we are not merely getting by, that we are growing toward that perfection which we have glimpsed.
We are all on the spiritual path for the purpose of un
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