The Importance of Practice & Effort: Essentials for Self Realization

This book is a must have for the serious Spiritual Seeker. Each quote from the greatest Sages this world has known points out how important practice is and motivates one to actually practice.There is a current trend in certain modern teachings that claim to be geared towards Enlightenment that practice is not necessary. The quotes of these True Sages put the nail in the coffin on that false idea.All of these quotes come from three other incredible books from this editor who is the Author of my all-time favorite Spiritual Teaching, "The Direct means to eternal Bliss". The editor italicized every part of each quote that stresses the importance of practice or is giving actual practice instruction. This helped me have greater insight into each quote even though I have read all these quotes many times.This work is highly recommended!

Great companion and inspirational text-book for anyboby on the spiritual way but in special for those who want to realize the truth of "you are that" and although it's a fact that we are that nevertheless we need to feed the mind with lectures, books, purification and meditation in order to bring it inwards until the unique truth is realized.

Very helpful.

IMO The best of Langford's (sp?) collections of quotations from Ramana and friends.This certainly qualifies for the: "If I only had one book to reach enlightenment" list.Have highlighted most of this thin book. Why buy 10 overlapping books when 2-3 have 90% of the content.Ramana himself stated how foolish / impractical it is to try to reach your inner heart using an external means e.g. a book.

Every minute and to be precise every second of a spiritual seeker's time should be spent contemplating on Self in one way or the other. This book is extremely useful to stress the importance of practice and effort in spiritual practice. It is a must read for people to keep motivated in spiritual practice.

Very inspiring

The title of the book and the contents of the book were different. I thought there are going to be lessons and ways of practice rather than quotes.