"Wherever people gather for selfless ends, there is……" — Eknath Easwaran
"Wherever people gather for selfless ends, there is a vast augmentation of their individual capacities. Something wonderful, something momentous happens. An irresistible force begins to move, which, though we may not see it, is going to change our world. In this lies the power and the meaning of spiritual companionship."
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47 Quotes by Eknath Easwaran
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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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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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The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.
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Manufacturing establishments not only occasion a positive augmentation of the produce and revenue of the society . . . they…
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Intelligence augmentation decreases the need for specialization and increases participatory complexity.
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I have never voted. Like most people I am utterly disenchanted by politics. Like most people I regard politicians as…
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There is a greater Christian faith than one which settles for the temporal happiness, and that is the augmentation of…
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