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When the mind is still, we can become an instrument of peace.
— Eknath Easwaran
Be aware of me always, adore me, make every act an offering to me, and you shall come to me; this I promise; for you are dear to me.
— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.
— Eknath Easwaran
When we meditate every morning we are putting on armor for the day's battle against our own impatience, inadequacy, resentment, and hostility.
— Eknath Easwaran
The goal of meditation is awareness, not relaxation.
— Eknath Easwaran
We have to have a purpose greater than the endless struggle to satisfy personal desires.
— Eknath Easwaran
The capacity to be patient, to bear with others through thick and thin, is within the reach of anyone.
— Eknath Easwaran
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.
— Eknath Easwaran
Peace would always be less compelling than war. Perhaps that was why there was so little of it in the world. (p. 160)
— Eknath Easwaran
The spiritual life is a call to action. But it is a call to ... action without any selfish attachment to the results.
— Eknath Easwaran
Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.
— Eknath Easwaran
Instead of looking at difficulties as deprivations, we can learn to recognize them as opportunities for deepening and widening our love.
— Eknath Easwaran
By removing that which is petty and self-seeking, we bring forth all that is glorious and mindful of the whole.
— Eknath Easwaran
Our deepest need is for the joy that comes with knowing we are of genuine use to others.
— Eknath Easwaran
The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.
— Eknath Easwaran
As we get deeper, we move closer and closer to other people; we feel closer to life as a whole.
— Eknath Easwaran
Every angry thought makes it a little easier to get angry the next time, and a little more likely.
— Eknath Easwaran
Two forces pervade human life, the Gita says: the upward thrust of evolution and the downward pull of our evolutionary past.
— Eknath Easwaran
Judged by the normal standards of human affairs, the lives of men and women of God may look overburdened with suffering, and even inconclusive.
— Eknath Easwaran
I am time, the destroyer of all; I have come to consume the world.
— Eknath Easwaran
Whatever we have done, we can always make amends for it without ever looking back in guilt or sorrow.
— Eknath Easwaran
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.
— Eknath Easwaran
When we truly are putting others first, we cannot but feel at peace with ourselves.
— Eknath Easwaran
Human relationships are the perfect tool for sanding away our rough edges and getting at the core of divinity within us.
— Eknath Easwaran
Lasting change happens when people see for themselves that a different way of life is more fulfilling than their present one.
— Eknath Easwaran
People who have strong likes and dislikes find life very difficult; they are as rigid as if they had only one bone.
— Eknath Easwaran
