Helping others to slow down occupied Easwarans attention from the start of his career as a spiritual teacher, when he disembarked in New York in 1959, until his very last talk in 1998. He regarded slowing down the mind as a topic of the utmost seriousness, and Take Your Time has become a classic. Society is catching up with Easwarans thinking. Fractured attention and speeded up minds are having a devastating effect not only on health and productivity but also on our personal lives: family counselors describe parents too busy to see one another, friendships slipping apart, children with stress disorders like those of busy executives. Time management books can help, but they dont get to the root of the problem: minds that are out of control. And Easwaran, a highly regarded authority on meditation, is a master of the mind. A gifted teacher, well aware of the challenges of modern living, he supports us in the midst of our busy schedules.
