Relax and Retreat lays the cornerstone for a modern life of inspired sanity. It addresses the urgent need in our times to neutralize the hectic pace and mounting tensions of contemporary life with a deliberately cultivated spiritual equilibrium. To that end, it is a practical course in balancing periods of extroverted activity with recuperative periods of creative inner stillness.
The skills developed through applying the techniques of this category provide a foundation for stable progress in all aspects of the spiritual Quest.
The category title and the broad general divisions that serve as chapter titles are P.B.'s own. We have provided only the tertiary divisions.
Editorial conventions for this category are the same as explained in the introductions to Perspectives and The Quest. Likewise, (P) at the end of a para here indicates that the para also appears in Perspectives.