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There is a kind of sleep which has a special quality about it--intensely deep and refreshingly blissful. Those who are physically ill awake from it feeling much better, sometimes quite healed. Those who are practising meditation just before passing into it get as much spiritual benefit as if they had continued to practise in a state of wakeful alertness. The ancient priest-physicians called it "temple-sleep" and the modern Oriental mystics (Indian and Muhammedan, not Japanese) call it "yoga-sleep."

-- Notebooks Category 19: The Reign of Relativity > Chapter 3 : The States of Consciousness > # 103