VACATIONS - ALONE

When you settle into doing the same ordinary things everyday, life becomes more or less mechanical. You get used to it, no matter how nice everything is. But eventually you will feel an inner prompting from the soul to get free from that stagnant routine of thought and activity. That is why vacations are good; they are necessary. Vacations on which you can be alone are wonderful. If you want to have a really beneficial vacation, arrange at least some time when you can be by yourself. Do not be with even your nearest and dearest during all of your vacation, because constant association with those who have their own mental ruts makes it more difficult to break out of your mechanical way of life.

Swami Paramhansa Yoganandji

23.7.06