Enter the Quiet Heart: Creating a Loving Relationship With God Hardcover – March 1, 1998

Full of priceless gems! Whether you are in the (SRF) path or not, the pearls of wisdom within are applicable to anyone, regardless of nationality, religion, or life philosophy. Application in your life of the advice within will help you in many and various ways! Do yourself a favor and purchase / read this work and start applying in your life the guidance and advice offered within!

Daya Mata mentions several times in "Enter the Quiet Heart," that it's necessary to make an effort to cultivate a relationship with God. Build your relationship with God through meditation, she says, through practicing the presence of God and through service to others. You can't love something you don't know, she says, and it doesn't happen just by reading about it! Then the power of this book contradicts her words. You can feel God's love for you! It's as though you are the beneficiary of her experience, her journey, her own love of God, just by reading. She carries you! Then, perhaps, you may be inspired to do the work...

I thought this was a book that would provide information; like paragraphs, stories, facts and so on. It is just a book with quotations and “deep thoughts” on each page. Still inspirational, but not quite what I was looking for.

I opened the book randomly...and lo and behold...it was exactly if "Someone Out There" knew of my thoughts, the ones that I'd been mulling over all day. And there was my answer, page 9. Sri Daya Mata has such a beautiful way with words, not to mention the timing.

This book makes me feel good just to read it and, to know that I can have a relationship with our Divine God on a daily basis.

It is a beautiful peace inspiring book. I have read it before, I bought it for a relative who may pass soon and it has the most wonderful ability to give peace as it looks at the nature of the Divine Presence within and without. It takes away the fear that we are a "can of worms" if we look at ourselves and it can remove the fear of judgement if we allow it to.

After nearly fifty years as president of one of the world's most respected yoga institutions, Sri Daya Mata is the exemplar of taking meditative yoga to its pinnacle -- universal, unconditional love.To someone like myself (raised in the sciences), the concept of "love" for a "personal God" was not a respectable thought until it was shown me (in Autobiography of a Yogi (by Daya Mata's teacher, Paramahansa Yogananda) ISBN 0876120834 ) how rationality and divine love were both mutually consistent and mutually supportive. Yogananda's expositions on Kriya Yoga (one expression of the meditative science of raja yoga) make it clear that systematic, scientific practice of proven techniques of clearing the mind and body are of utmost importance in helping one to open and expand the limited human heart.Yogananda's classical spiritual instruction goes on to describe the importance of developing the ''right attitude'' in all activities and especially in the practice of one's yoga and meditation. Let this collection of wise and loving insights from Daya Mata serve as an inspiration for you to develop YOUR OWN personal relationship with the Creator. If at present you find the appeal limited (or the value unclear) of employing PERSONAL concepts for drawing closer to the Invisible Infinite, you might appreciate reading Yogananda's chapter, "Is God Personal or Impersonal?" in his volume "Man's Eternal Quest" (ISBN 0876122322 ).

Each page of this book is a declaration of a deep love for God by Sri Daya Mata and absolutely saturated with adulation. This alone would warrant 5 stars, however, if your relationship with God is more in the "getting to know you" stage this book might very well overwhelm you more than it will help you. I'm not quite sure what I was expecting (I was intrigued by the title), but I was almost turned off by its gushy sweetness. "Be drunk with Him who is Love," and the book leaves no doubt that Sri Daya Mata is "drunk" with God. Don't get me wrong, this is a deeply spiritual woman who is totally and intimately in touch and in love with God and I admire her for the loving being she is, but for those of us who are not so well-grounded yet her style can be pretty overpowering. What also bothered me a lot was her way of referring to God that left me with a mental picture of a person - mostly father-child (though she does refer to God also as "Mother"). This took me back to childhood church days where my personal search for God actually began, because a God who demands this and that of me before I am considered worthy, and who can be swayed by my behavior can not be "God." She says, "What is the easiest way to win anyone? Not through reason: through love. So the logical way to win the Divine Friend is to love Him." I don't think God can be influenced or won in any way nor do I believe that God can be pleased or displeased - God IS. C.G. Jung said, "Bidden or unbidden, God is present" - I believe that says it all. The only really valuable passage for me was when she wrote of telling Paramahansa Yogananda how she craved God's love and he answered: "Then I say this to you: Take that craving into meditation, meditate deeply, so deeply that your mind becomes filled with nothing but that desire for divine love, for God; and you will know Him who is Love." Now, THAT I can relate to. Had I been able to examine the book first, I would not have bought it; it is too sugary sweet and carries too much religious connotation for my taste. I do not want to discourage you from buying this booklet, it certainly is a great testimony of one woman's deep devotional love for God; but unless you are on the same wavelength with Sri Daya Mata and feel comfortable with the familiar father/mother-child cliche I would look for other books. Among the many excellent authors out there you might want to check out Lynn Robinson (Divine Intuition), Frederick & Mary Ann Brussat (Spiritual Literacy: Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life) -- you'll never part with this one!, Sam Keen (Hymns to an unknown God) and Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (I am That).

Wonderful short readings. Dip in and out of this book for a 'thought for the day'.

Molto bello! Un libro che consiglierei a tutti di qualsiasi religione che siano!! Eterne parole su come amare Dio! :)

a true disciple of the incarnation of love. Yogananda. Read this digest this and go into your world in love.

自分の内奥に語りかける言葉の数々に心が癒される。これほど素晴らしい書に出会う事はめったにないでしょう。