An important point in this aspect is discrimination. We need to learn what is most worthy of our attention and what is less important. This is not always easy, because each person s path is individual. We do not all learn the same things at the same time or with the same speed. But whatever we learn by study has to be absorbed and applied, and that takes us to the next two aspects.
Meditation is just as important as study.
As with study, there is no single right way to meditate, so each individual must find the best approach through trial and, sometimes, error. The basic purpose of meditation is to change our center of awareness. It is a method of applying what we have learned in our study to ourselves and our roles in life. It is getting in touch with that aspect within each of us which is part of the Oneness of all manifestation. One definition of the goal of meditation is to be completely aware at every moment of what we are doing and thinking and why.