"As meditation deepens, compulsions, cravings and fits of……" — Eknath Easwaran
"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; we can say yes or we can say no. It is profoundly liberating."
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47 Quotes by Eknath Easwaran
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At the beginning of every winter people are careful to install storm windows. These extra panes of glass protect their…
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Human relationships are the perfect tool for sanding away our rough edges and getting at the core of divinity within…
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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…
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Eventually, meditation will make our mind calm, clear, and as concentrated as a laser which we can focus at will.…
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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…
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The things we think about, brood on, dwell on, and exult over influence our life in a thousand ways. When…
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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,…
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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…
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God made the senses turn outwards, man therefore looks outwards, not into himself. But occasionally a daring soul, desiring immortality,…
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We have no need to teach pure motives to the mind. All that is necessary to make the mind pure…
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