"The earth was our home, she would have……" — Eknath Easwaran
"The earth was our home, she would have said, but no less was it home to the oxen that pulled our plows or the elephants that roamed in the forest and worked for us. They lived with us as partners whose well-being was inseparable from our own."
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47 Quotes by Eknath Easwaran
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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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As we get deeper, we move closer and closer to other people; we feel closer to life as a whole.
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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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God made the senses turn outwards, man therefore looks outwards, not into himself. But occasionally a daring soul, desiring immortality,…
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