Imagine a hot tub for the mind. That is what meditation is; it can bathe your mind in relaxing thoughts. — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
We have no need to teach pure motives to the mind. All that is necessary to make the mind pure is to… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
Having come to realize in the first stage of meditation that we are not our bodies, in the second stage we make… — 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… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
The Lord is a good psychologist: he knows the way our minds run. Turmoil can be the Lord's way of tapping us… — 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
Meditation is warm-up exercise for the mind, so that you can jog through the rest of the day without getting agitated or… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
“Undivided singleness of mind” is what the Gita means by yoga. It is the complete opposite of the incessant civil warfare among… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
Eventually, meditation will make our mind calm, clear, and as concentrated as a laser which we can focus at will. This capacity… — 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
“All negative thoughts – anger, fear, passion, compulsive craving -- tend to be fast. If we could see the mind when it… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
An unhurried mind brings the capacity to make wise choices every day - choices of how we use our time, of where… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
“A mind that is racing over worries about the future or recycling resentments from the past is ill equipped to handle the… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
There are three kinds of violence: one, through our deeds; two, through our words; and three, through our thoughts. …The root of… — 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
