The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
“Meditation is the basis of a life of splendid health, untiring energy, unfailing love, and abiding wisdom. It is the very foundation… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
Love is so exquisitely elusive. It cannot be bought, cannot be badgered, cannot be hijacked. It is available only in one rare… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
As we get deeper, we move closer and closer to other people; we feel closer to life as a whole. — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
The eye cannot see it; the mind cannot grasp it. The deathless Self (the Supreme Soul or God) has neither caste nor… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
The things we think about, brood on, dwell on, and exult over influence our life in a thousand ways. When we can… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
Lasting change happens when people see for themselves that a different way of life is more fulfilling than their present one. — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
My grandmother lived in a universe filled with life. It was impossible for her to conceive of any creature - even the… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
“….You are an exalted creature, with a spark of the divine within you that nothing you do can extinguish; and you have… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
As the web issues out of the spider, As plants sprout from the earth, As hair grows from the body, even so,… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
Excitement and depression, fortune and misfortune, pleasure and pain are storms in a tiny private, shell-bound realm - which we take to… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
The spiritual life is a call to action. But it is a call to ... action without any selfish attachment to the results. — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
“Very few of us see life as it really is. Most of us see things only as we are, looking at others… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
Activity is not achievement. It is not enough to rush about beginning a lot of things and keeping busy. A well-spent life… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
I like to remind my friends frequently how short life is. This is the important message of death: not a day to… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
Every human heart has a deep need to love - to be in love, really, with all of life. This is the… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
“One learns a good deal in the school of suffering. I wonder what would have happened to me if I had had… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
There is a close relationship between a house full of possessions and a heart full of desires, between a cluttered closet and… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
When we truly are putting others first, we cannot but feel at peace with ourselves. — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being. — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
At the beginning of every winter people are careful to install storm windows. These extra panes of glass protect their houses against the bitter… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into fearlessness, and… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
Don't think the purpose of meditation is to go deep into consciousness, wrap a blanket around yourself, and say, 'How cozy! I'm going to… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
Meditation may require a lifetime to master, but it will have been a lifetime well spent. ... If you want to judge your progress,… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
“Meditation is the basis of a life of splendid health, untiring energy, unfailing love, and abiding wisdom. It is the very foundation of that… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
Love is so exquisitely elusive. It cannot be bought, cannot be badgered, cannot be hijacked. It is available only in one rare form: as… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
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… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
By removing that which is petty and self-seeking, we bring forth all that is glorious and mindful of the whole. — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
As we get deeper, we move closer and closer to other people; we feel closer to life as a whole. — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
To be secure everywhere is the mark of sophistication, to be unshakable is the mark of courage, to be permanently in love with every… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
