"Our deepest need is for the joy that……" — Eknath Easwaran

"Our deepest need is for the joy that comes with knowing we are of genuine use to others."

— Eknath Easwaran

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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…
Human relationships are the perfect tool for sanding away our rough edges and getting at the core of divinity within…
Meditation is warm-up exercise for the mind, so that you can jog through the rest of the day without getting…
Eventually, meditation will make our mind calm, clear, and as concentrated as a laser which we can focus at will.…
As meditation deepens, compulsions, cravings and fits of emotion begin to lose their power to dictate our behavior. We see…
As we get deeper, we move closer and closer to other people; we feel closer to life as a whole.
The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first…
The things we think about, brood on, dwell on, and exult over influence our life in a thousand ways. When…
Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily. If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow.
A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion,…
Don't think the purpose of meditation is to go deep into consciousness, wrap a blanket around yourself, and say, 'How…
God made the senses turn outwards, man therefore looks outwards, not into himself. But occasionally a daring soul, desiring immortality,…

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This airline is grateful for his extensive contributions and we will miss his friendship and support. We extend our deepest… — Gerard Arpey
In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part… — John James Audubon
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. — Ansel Adams
Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response. — Amos Bronson Alcott
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree… — Lord Byron
All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts. — Lloyd Alexander
I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance. — Pablo Casals
To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that… — Willa Cather
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I… — Judy Chicago
Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In… — Alan Cohen
Science is not the enemy of humanity but one of the deepest expressions of the human desire to realize that… — Heinz Pagels

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