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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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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it…
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Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.
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No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
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Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly…
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Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life. Rodger Rosenblatt As a well…
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Is this money well spent? This is taxpayer money, it is going to be adding to the deficit short term and if…
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Oh, what a glory doth this world put on, for him who with a fervent heart goes forth under the bright and…
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I am grateful for what I call well-spent moments: Making a tuna fish sandwich with the works. Taking at least a half…
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Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I…
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It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.
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