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Eknath Easwaran has 47 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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Human relationships are the perfect tool for sanding away our rough edges and getting at the core of divinity within us.
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Meditation is warm-up exercise for the mind, so that you can jog through the rest of the day without getting agitated or…
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Eventually, meditation will make our mind calm, clear, and as concentrated as a laser which we can focus at will. This capacity…
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As meditation deepens, compulsions, cravings and fits of emotion begin to lose their power to dictate our behavior. We see clearly that…
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As we get deeper, we move closer and closer to other people; we feel closer to life as a whole.
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The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate, we…
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The things we think about, brood on, dwell on, and exult over influence our life in a thousand ways. When we can…
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Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily. If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow.
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A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into…
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Don't think the purpose of meditation is to go deep into consciousness, wrap a blanket around yourself, and say, 'How cozy! I'm…
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God made the senses turn outwards, man therefore looks outwards, not into himself. But occasionally a daring soul, desiring immortality, has looked…
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Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
— John le Carre
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If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
— Seymour Cray
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One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The sciences are found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backward; and old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at…
— Jonathan Swift
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Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals.
— William Winwood Reade
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And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: And when he…
— John the Apostle
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Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.
— Samuel Johnson
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If oxen and lions had hands and could paint with their hands and produce works of art, as men do, horses would…
— Xenophanes
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Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a…
— Gautama Buddha
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Know all things to be like this: A mirage, a cloud castle, A dream, an apparition, Without essence, but with qualities that…
— Gautama Buddha
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The air was cold to the lungs, the long grass dripping wet, and the herbs on it gave out their spiced astringent…
— Isak Dinesen
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My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than…
— George Bernard Shaw
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