No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.
It is not so much that you are within the cosmos but that the cosmos is within you.
There is no such thing as evil. Only relative degrees of good.
Pure love is matchless in majesty; it has no parallel in power and there is no darkness it cannot dispel.
If I were to ask the famous Henry Ford to come over here and do what I tell him to do, would he do it? Never! But if I were to make a thousand-year-old corpse come alive before his eyes, he would jump at the chance to stay here and wash my clothes!
The purpose of life is to realize God within ourselves. This can be done even whilst attending to our worldly duties.