If religion is thus allowed to become a ready-made day-dream it will certainly interest adolescents of a certain sort.

The naturally introverted type will become meditative; whilst their opposites, the extroverted or active type, will probably tend to be ritualistic.

But here again we are missing the essence of spiritual life.
Our aim should be to induce, in a wholesome way, that sense of the spiritual in daily experience which the old writers called the consciousness of the of God.

The monastic training in spirituality, slowly evolved under pressure of experience, nearly always did this.

It has bequeathed to us a funded wisdom of which we make little use; and this, reinterpreted in the light of psychological knowledge, might I believe cast a great deal of light on the fundamental problems of spiritual education.