"Meditation is like a gym in which you……" — Ajahn Brahm
"Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight."
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16 Quotes by Ajahn Brahm
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Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires. It then worships such a freedom by…
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Understand the place of love in a spiritual life. A powerful and blissful type of love has no conditions, no…
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Love, oneness, is no separation between you and life. It is a progressive letting go, a progressive not fault finding.…
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What are people searching for in life? God. In the christian scriptures, it says 'Be still and know you are…
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When you have abandoned all past and future, it is as if you have come alive. You are here, mindful...the…
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Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity in thinking.
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When the weather is hot, keep a cool mind. When the weather is cold, keep a warm heart.
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Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don't like.
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The selfless giving, the service, the kindness which you give out into this world that is the currency of (the)…
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How many times have you tried to solve “the problem”? you’ll be trying to solve it not just until you…
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When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass. Be mindful, be compassionate and nurture…
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Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
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More Calm Quotes
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action…
— Abigail Adams
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I meditate so I know how to find a peaceful place within to be calm and peaceful.
— Roseanne Barr
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I practice staying calm all the time, beginning with situations that aren't tense.
— Martha Beck
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I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so…
— Kate Adie
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As a comic and as a nurse, it's important to look calm on the surface when you're absolutely crapping yourself…
— Jo Brand
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
— Michael Caine
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Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
— Vannevar Bush
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There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
— Lord Byron
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There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
— Willa Cather
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A calm environment is for after I finish work.
— Lee Child
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The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we…
— Nhat Hanh
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