right here. At first there was not much "soaring" about it. I began by sitting for half an hour or so, leaving my body perfectly limp (usually I "sat" by lying full length on my back on the bed), and trying simply to imagine what Omnipresence meant, and to realize that I and Omnipresence are one and indivisible. Another day I took Omniscience in the same way; then Omnipotence; always trying to realize my oneness with all Presence, Wisdom and Power. Of course this was stupid work for a long time, and I had hard work to keep awake over it. And I had harder work to tear myself away from more substantial sorts of activity. Sometimes I did fail, but not often.

But one thing was always gained, even from the first sitting --- no matter how hard I found it to go away and take that half hour or so of spiritual exercise I never failed to rise from it feeling quiet and ready for anything, and full of kindness. And if I failed to take my half hour (it was my custom to do this early in the morning) I almost invariably had an unsatisfactory and often a stormy morning, when "everything went wrong." I learned after a time the real sense in John Wesley's habit of taking an extra long time the first thing in the morning for prayer, whenever he had a particularly hard day ahead. He would say, "I have so much to do today that I cannot possibly get through it all without at least three hours of prayer to begin with." That meant three hours of spiritual gymnastics to fill him with power For mental and physical effort. If he prayed as I have heard old fashioned preachers pray, using body and lungs as if God were a long way off and had to be exhorted and motioned to, I can easily understand