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where death were almost laughable impossibility, the loss of personality (if so it were) seeming but the only true life. I am ashamed of my feeble description. Have I not said the state is utterly beyond words? But in a moment, when I come back to my normal state of sanity, I am ready to fight for me in liebes Ich and hold that it will last for eons.
--- Memoir by Hallam Tennyson.
He also gives this same method of concentration, until all consciousness of personality is lost in Principle, through Concentrating upon his own name, in his poem,"The Ancient Sage," putting these words into the discourse of the sage:
For more than once when I
Sat all alone, revolving by myself
The word that is the symbol of myself,
The mortal limit of the Self was loosed,
And past into the Nameless, as a cloud
Melts into heaven. I touched my limbs, the limbs
Were strange, not mine-and yet no shade of doubt
but utter clearness, and thro' loss of self
The gain of such large life as matched with ours
Were sun to spark-unshadowable in words,
Themselves but shadows of a shadow-world.
EXTRACT FROM "MIND."
There is much of helpful suggestion in the following beautiful extract from an article by Winifred Hathaway in Mind.
You must concentrate. You must first systematically and carefully select and determine upon the subject of your desires. You must be exact in every detail; do not blame results if you have concentrated upon a confused idea. You must then give it your undivided attention. It has been stated that meditation is a lost art. For the masses it is, but for the individual, by constant attention, it will become habit. At first the effort will be a conscious one, objective, but by ceaseless thought it will gradually become subjective; even in sleep the mind will carry on a train of thought. To one accustomed to concentration the object of desire comes almost immediately; but to the novice the time is long; only patience, exhaustless, infinite, can bring about the desired result. By actual experience it has been proved that a full year is necessary to acquire this art; but is it not worth the effort? Once possessed nothing is impossible; realized hopes and dreams; matured plans;
