If you want to do it, you can do it if the commitment is there - there should be no excuses for absence of spiritual practice

Dipa Ma

Carol Wilson: Dipa Ma was about no-nonsense and no excuses. To say, "Oh, I'm too tired," or "The conditions aren’t right," or "I have a backache, I don t want to practice today," there was no room for that.

She made it clear that if you want to do it, you can do it if the commitment is there. For her, there was never a reason not to sit. She just didn't understand why we wouldn't always be practicing.

Socializing was out of the question. Gossip and junk novels, no way!