"Whenever you are angry or afraid, nervous or……" — Eknath Easwaran
"Whenever you are angry or afraid, nervous or worried or resentful, repeat the mantram until the agitation subsides. The mantram works to steady the mind, and all these emotions are power running against you, which the mantram can harness and put to work for you."
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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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