"Instead of looking at difficulties as deprivations, we……" — Eknath Easwaran
"Instead of looking at difficulties as deprivations, we can learn to recognize them as opportunities for deepening and widening our love."
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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 meditation deepens, compulsions, cravings and fits of emotion begin to lose their power to dictate our behavior. We see…
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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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President Obama is determined that our foreign and national security policies not play into al-Qa'ida's strategy or its warped ideology.…
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The central significance of prayer is not in the things that happen as results, but in the deepening intimacy and…
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Our real journey in life is interior; It is a matter of growth, deepening, and of an ever greater surrender…
— Thomas Merton
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The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind.
— John Dewey
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The encouragement and the deepening of Eucharistic worship are proofs of the authentic renewal which the Council set itself as…
— Pope John Paul II
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But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The…
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The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis.…
— Al Gore
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A heaven so clear, an earth so calm, So sweet, so soft, so hushed an air; And, deepening still the…
— Emily Bronte
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The shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Imagine for a moment that each one of us takes only a little more care for each hour of his…
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So, yes, the five years that we've been working on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine has evidenced a real deepening…
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Now we stand at our own crossroads, looking out upon two futures: one with rising temperatures, rising oceans, and rising…
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