Eknath Easwaran Quotes
Top 42 wise famous quotes and sayings by Eknath Easwaran
Eknath Easwaran Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.
Imagine a hot tub for the mind. That is what meditation is; it can bathe your mind in relaxing thoughts.
When we meditate every morning we are putting on armor for the day's battle against our own impatience, inadequacy, resentment, and hostility.
When we go slower, we are more patient and when we are more patient we have a choice in how we respond.
The capacity to be patient, to bear with others through thick and thin, is within the reach of anyone.
Meditation is warm-up exercise for the mind, so that you can jog through the rest of the day without getting agitated or spraining your patience.
Peace would always be less compelling than war. Perhaps that was why there was so little of it in the world. (p. 160)
The spiritual life is a call to action. But it is a call to ... action without any selfish attachment to the results.
Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.
When we try to get ourselves out of the way, we can understand much better the needs of the people closest to us.
I have tremendous respect for anyone who can control his palate enough to learn not only to drink beer but to enjoy it too.
When someone at peace and free from hurry enters a room, that person has a calming effect on everyone present.
Don't try to control the future," he would say. "Work on the one thing you can learn to control: your own responses.
The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.
Two forces pervade human life, the Gita says: the upward thrust of evolution and the downward pull of our evolutionary past.
Instead of looking at difficulties as deprivations, we can learn to recognize them as opportunities for deepening and widening our love.
Judged by the normal standards of human affairs, the lives of men and women of God may look overburdened with suffering, and even inconclusive.
By removing that which is petty and self-seeking, we bring forth all that is glorious and mindful of the whole.
Whatever we have done, we can always make amends for it without ever looking back in guilt or sorrow.
We can all avoid travel that is unnecessary; we do not need to travel around the world when the source of all joy and all beauty is right within us.
Human relationships are the perfect tool for sanding away our rough edges and getting at the core of divinity within us.
Lasting change happens when people see for themselves that a different way of life is more fulfilling than their present one.