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This exercise can be used with success only if there is the utmost attraction to the idea phrased or the fullest love for the Divine Name or spiritual leader mentioned in it. If the feeling is weak, the remembrance will be fitful and unsteady, the practice will only be occasional and hence insufficient. If the feeling is strong, the mind will be able to hold the idea or the name more easily and unbrokenly, for then it is like the feeling which exists between a pair of separated young lovers. They are able to remember each other's name constantly, to hold each other's mental picture quite spontaneously. They do not need to make any deliberate effort at all.

-- Notebooks Category 4: Elementary Meditation > Chapter 6 : Mantrams, Affirmations > # 228