Eknath Easwaran

The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate, we…

— Eknath Easwaran

Having come to realize in the first stage of meditation that we are not our bodies, in the second stage we make…

— Eknath Easwaran

Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily. If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow.

— Eknath Easwaran

We have no need to teach pure motives to the mind. All that is necessary to make the mind pure is to…

— Eknath Easwaran

An unhurried mind brings the capacity to make wise choices every day - choices of how we use our time, of where…

— Eknath Easwaran

Imagine a hot tub for the mind. That is what meditation is; it can bathe your mind in relaxing thoughts.

— Eknath Easwaran

In the spiritual lore of India there is a story that the Lord whispered only one word in our ears when he…

— Eknath Easwaran

When we are at home with ourselves, we are at home everywhere in the world. When we have found peace within ourselves,…

— Eknath Easwaran

“concentration breeds efficiency while division brings inefficiency, error, and tension.”

— Eknath Easwaran

The things we think about, brood on, dwell on, and exult over influence our life in a thousand ways. When we can…

— Eknath Easwaran

Lasting change happens when people see for themselves that a different way of life is more fulfilling than their present one.

— Eknath Easwaran

Whenever you are angry or afraid, nervous or worried or resentful, repeat the mantram until the agitation subsides. The mantram works to…

— Eknath Easwaran

My grandmother lived in a universe filled with life. It was impossible for her to conceive of any creature - even the…

— Eknath Easwaran

It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not…

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“….You are an exalted creature, with a spark of the divine within you that nothing you do can extinguish; and you have…

— Eknath Easwaran

“Attention can be trained very naturally, with affection, just as you train a puppy. When something distracts your attention, you say “Come…

— Eknath Easwaran

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.

— Eknath Easwaran

Wisdom may be perennial, but to see its relevance we must see it lived out.

— Eknath Easwaran

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

“As meditation deepens, compulsions, cravings, and fits of emotions begin to lose their power to dictate our behavior. We see clearly that…

— Eknath Easwaran

As the web issues out of the spider, As plants sprout from the earth, As hair grows from the body, even so,…

— Eknath Easwaran

Like Gandhi, like the Buddha, like all great spiritual teachers, Easwaran had no use for beliefs unless they generated actions. Doing, not…

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Wherever people gather for selfless ends, there is a vast augmentation of their individual capacities. Something wonderful, something momentous happens. An irresistible…

— Eknath Easwaran

Everything beautiful has to be worked for.

— Eknath Easwaran

Excitement and depression, fortune and misfortune, pleasure and pain are storms in a tiny private, shell-bound realm - which we take to…

— Eknath Easwaran