Ajahn Brahm Quotes

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• Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires. It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it at the forefront…
• Understand the place of love in a spiritual life. A powerful and blissful type of love has no conditions, no ownership and no people involved.…
• Love, oneness, is no separation between you and life. It is a progressive letting go, a progressive not fault finding. Just do nothing and love…
• What are people searching for in life? God. In the christian scriptures, it says 'Be still and know you are God.' What is this? You…
• When you have abandoned all past and future, it is as if you have come alive. You are here, mindful...the nature of all types of…
• Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity in thinking.
• When the weather is hot, keep a cool mind. When the weather is cold, keep a warm heart.
• Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don't like.
• The selfless giving, the service, the kindness which you give out into this world that is the currency of (the) meaning (of life).
• How many times have you tried to solve “the problem”? you’ll be trying to solve it not just until you die but for many more…
• When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass. Be mindful, be compassionate and nurture the circumstances that find you…
• Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
• If you know how to let go and be at peace, you know everything you need to know about living in the world.
• Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.
• Peace is the most valuable commodity. And it's free!
• Why seek revenge? Karma is going to get the bastards anyway

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