Eknath Easwaran Quotes

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• At the beginning of every winter people are careful to install storm windows. These extra panes of glass protect their houses against the bitter winds.…
• Human relationships are the perfect tool for sanding away our rough edges and getting at the core of divinity within us.
• 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.
• Eventually, meditation will make our mind calm, clear, and as concentrated as a laser which we can focus at will. This capacity of one-pointed attention…
• As meditation deepens, compulsions, cravings and fits of emotion begin to lose their power to dictate our behavior. We see clearly that choices are possible;…
• As we get deeper, we move closer and closer to other people; we feel closer to life as a whole.
• The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate, we ask ourselves, 'Are…
• The things we think about, brood on, dwell on, and exult over influence our life in a thousand ways. When we can actually choose the…
• Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily. If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow.
• A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into fearlessness, and hatred…
• 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 curl…
• God made the senses turn outwards, man therefore looks outwards, not into himself. But occasionally a daring soul, desiring immortality, has looked back and found…
• We have no need to teach pure motives to the mind. All that is necessary to make the mind pure is to undo the negative…
• I have never been able to understand the compelling phrase, 'keeping up with the Joneses.' It does not matter very much whether I keep up…
• Everything beautiful has to be worked for.
• Every human heart has a deep need to love - to be in love, really, with all of life. This is the kind of love…
• Instead of looking at difficulties as deprivations, we can learn to recognize them as opportunities for deepening and widening our love.
• There are three kinds of violence: one, through our deeds; two, through our words; and three, through our thoughts. …The root of all violence is…
• When mystics use the word love, they use it very carefully - in the deeply spiritual sense, where to love is to know; to love…
• Excitement and depression, fortune and misfortune, pleasure and pain are storms in a tiny private, shell-bound realm - which we take to be the whole…

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