Here is a treasury of life-wisdom, in brief aphoristic form, gathered from ancient and modern scriptures,and from Eastern and Western philosophers and gurus.
Most of the dharanas come from the stand-point of non-dualism, i.e.,roughly "All Is One" or "Everything Is Consciousness."
But wisdom is wasted if it stays in our heads: it has to be worked into our lives. So this is not a skim-and-dip kind of book. Just follow the "How To Use This Book" guidelines and test each dharana out for yourself. Some you will discard, but others will be found to be effective and uplifting and taken on board.
Enjoy it and engage with it ! You will be in the company of Socrates, Aristotle, Plato, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Jesus Christ, The Buddha, Prophet Mohammed, Rumi, Albert Einstein, Patanjali, Sivananda, Sai Baba, B.K.S. Iyengar, Wayne Dyer, Eckhart Tolle and John Kabat Zinn, to name a few.

Well received by reviewers and readers alike, David Long has been a writer since leaving a first-class university with a second-class degree in the 1980s. He is fascinated by those strange, semi-hidden corners of England most of us cease to notice because we walk by them so often. Whilst a columnist for the Sunday People he created a popular weekly cartoon strip which appeared in the Times, and continues to write for a wide diversity of newspapers and magazines both in Britain and abroad. Many of his most popular and best-reviewed books reflect his longstanding interest in the less well-known aspects of Britain, its architecture and eccentric inhabitants - subjects, he says, which simply never run dry. He has written Bizarre England and Lost Britain for Michael O'Mara Books.