Every Brick Counts

To Hislop

To try to meditate, to try to become quiet, to try to relax, keep trying. Every positive effort that you make is not in vain. Every single brick added to a temple made of brick brings that temple closer to completion. So, keep trying; and one day, all of a sudden, you will pierce the lower realms of your mind and enter into contemplation and you will be able to say: “Yes, I know, I have seen. Now, I know fully the path that I am on.” Keep trying. You have to start somewhere. The self you cannot speak of. You can only try to think about it, if you care to, in one way: feel your mind, body and emotions and know.

With Blessings,

Baba

12.11.71, at 9 AM

(Note from Baba hand-delivered by messenger to Jack Hislop at the ashram)