As soon as a disastrous thought arises in the mind... it should be snubbed off immediately. We should constantly sweep our minds off of all the disastrous thoughts. All the disasters in our life are happening solely because of our own disastrous thinking patterns.
As our mind is... so will be our life. Our life is the sum total resultant of whatever we have ever intended in the whole of the hoary past and whatever we are currently, in this life-time, now, intending.
You cannot go to a Church and understand Jesus Christ. Only a great meditator can understand the life of a Jesus Christ.
The physical body is the natural shadow of the mind... in its totality. Everything is psycho-somatic. Our whole life is literally an expression of psycho-somatism. The psyche creates the soma. If we take care of the psyche, we have taken care of the soma.
Our foremost duty should be the study our own self, and discovering answers to the following questions: 1. Who are we? 2. Where do we come from? 3. What exactly is Birth? 4. What exactly is Death? 5. What exactly is Life? 6. What exactly is the source of human misery? 7. Is misery self-inflicted, or decreed by God, over which we don't have any authority.
We should encourage children to become Masters. We should not consider children as mere children. They have taken many births before this life. Nobody is merely a 'child'. An Advanced Soul could be in a child's body. We have to treat them like Masters. We have to talk to them about the theme of Mastery.