An earnest seeker should be deeply concerned each time he is confronted with his rebellious mind, with its lazy habits, instability, attachments, elusiveness, and slovenly ways of working. These he will have to study and try intelligently to contend with, both during his meditation and when he is engaged in doing his various spiritual exercises in outer life. He will certainly feel the great need to find means of some sort by which he can struggle to control his disobedient mind and obtain a little freedom from its incessant and meaningless wanderings, at least during the moments when he wants to concentrate on his spiritual practices.

Just as a dancer cannot restrict himself to practicing one body movement only and hope to reach a certain standard in himself from which he can express sublime artistic sentiments, so, and to an even greater extent, a seeker needs to practice different spiritual exercises to match the different difficulties and problems he encounters in himself and the outside world—exercises that are essential to him to help him in this mysterious inner journey until he finally arrives at the discovery of his true being, that which is Divine in him. He has to be equipped with every possible means to sustain him

The Law of Attention, chapter 38