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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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  Motivational, Doubt, Grows

  Eknath Easwaran “How to Meditate: first chapter "Meditation on a Passage" from "Passage Meditation – A Complete Spiritual Practice"”, Nilgiri Press

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• 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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  Spiritual, Lying, Moving

  Eknath Easwaran (1991). “Meditation: A Simple Eight-point Program for Translating Spiritual Ideals Into Daily Life”, p.199, Nilgiri Press

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• When the mind is still, we can become an instrument of peace.

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  Mind, Instruments, Stills

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• Having come to realize in the first stage of meditation that we are not our bodies, in the second stage we make an even more astounding discovery; we are not our minds either.

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  Inspiration, Discovery, Practice

  Eknath Easwaran “How to Meditate: first chapter "Meditation on a Passage" from "Passage Meditation – A Complete Spiritual Practice"”, Nilgiri Press

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• It is not action or effort that we must surrender; it is self-will, and this is terribly difficult. You must do your best constantly, yet never allow yourself to become involved in whether things work out the way you want.

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  Self, Work Out, Effort

  Eknath Easwaran (1979). “Like a Thousand Suns: The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, Volume II”, p.371, Nilgiri Press

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• Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.

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  Yoga, Giving, Focus

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• When we go slower, we are more patient and when we are more patient we have a choice in how we respond.

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  Choices, Patient

  Eknath Easwaran (2010). “Words to Live By: Short Readings of Daily Wisdom”, p.231, Nilgiri Press

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• Beneath the surface level of conditioned thinking in every one of us there is a single living spirit. The still small voice whispering to me in the depths of my consciousness is saying exactly the same thing as the voice whispering to you in your consciousness. 'I want an earth that is healthy, a world at peace, and a heart filled with love.' It doesn't matter if your skin is brown or white or black, or whether you speak English, Japanese, or Malayalam - the voice, says the Gita, is the same in every creature, and it comes from your true self.

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  Heart, Thinking, Self

  Eknath Easwaran “The Compassionate Universe: The Power of the Individual to Heal the Environment”, Nilgiri Press

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• The Lord is a good psychologist: he knows the way our minds run. Turmoil can be the Lord's way of tapping us on the shoulder and saying, 'Don't forget me.'

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  Running, Mind, Way

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• Today, everything I do from morning meditation on - eating breakfast, going for a walk, writing, reading, even recreation - is governed by one purpose only: how to give the very best account of my life that I can in the service of all.

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  Morning, Reading, Writing

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• When we truly are putting others first, we cannot but feel at peace with ourselves.

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  Firsts, Feels

  Eknath Easwaran (2010). “Words to Live By: Short Readings of Daily Wisdom”, p.181, Nilgiri Press

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• Whatever we have done, we can always make amends for it without ever looking back in guilt or sorrow.

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  Sorrow, Guilt, Done

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• To enjoy anything, we cannot be attached to it... What we usually try to do is capture any joy that comes our way before it can escape... We try to cling to pleasure, but all we succeed in doing is making ourselves frustrated because, whatever it promises, pleasure simply cannot last. But if I am willing to kiss the joy as it flies, I say, "Yes, this moment is beautiful. I won't grab it. I'll let it go."

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  Beautiful, Kissing, Acceptance

  "Take Your Time: The Wisdom of Slowing Down".

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• Meditation may require a lifetime to master, but it will have been a lifetime well spent. ... If you want to judge your progress, ask yourself these questions: Am I more loving? Is my judgment sounder? Do I have more energy? Can my mind remain calm under provocation? Am I free from the conditioning of anger, fear, and greed? Spiritual awareness reveals itself as eloquently in character development and selfless action as in mystical states.

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  Spiritual, Character, Judging

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• To be secure everywhere is the mark of sophistication, to be unshakable is the mark of courage, to be permanently in love with every person is the mark of masculinity or femininity, to forgive is the mark of strength, to govern our senses and passions is the mark of freedom.

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  Passion, Forgiving, Unshakable

  Eknath Easwaran (2016). “Passage Meditation – A Complete Spiritual Practice: Train Your Mind and Find a Life that Fulfills”, p.125, Nilgiri Press

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

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  Knowing, Joy, Needs

  Eknath Easwaran (1996). “Love Never Faileth: Eknath Easwaran on St. Francis, St. Augustine, St. Paul and Mother Teresa”, p.30, Nilgiri Press

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• Love is so exquisitely elusive. It cannot be bought, cannot be badgered, cannot be hijacked. It is available only in one rare form: as the natural response of a healthy mind and healthy heart.

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  Love, Life, Heart

  Eknath Easwaran (1996). “Original Goodness: Elknath Easwaran on the Beatitudes of the Sermon on the Mount”, p.76, Nilgiri Press

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• As meditation deepens, compulsions, cravings and fits of emotion begin to lose their power to dictate our behavior. We see clearly that choices are possible; we can say yes or we can say no. It is profoundly liberating.

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  Meditation, Choices, Emotion

  Eknath Easwaran (2008). “Passage Meditation: Bringing the Deep Wisdom of the Heart Into Daily Life”, p.21, Nilgiri Press

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• The capacity to be patient, to bear with others through thick and thin, is within the reach of anyone.

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  Bears, Patient, Thick And Thin

  Eknath Easwaran (1979). “The End of Sorrow: The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, Vol I”, p.44, Nilgiri Press

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• In memorizing the prayer, it may be helpful to remind yourself that you are not addressing some extraterrestrial being outside you. The kingdom of heaven is within us, and the Lord is enshrined in the depths of our own consciousness. In this prayer we are calling deep into ourselves, appealing to the spark of the divine that is our real nature.

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  Prayer, Real, Heaven

  Eknath Easwaran (1996). “The Undiscovered Country: Exploring the Promise of Death”, p.57, Nilgiri Press

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• International war is the sum total of millions of individual wars, raging in the minds of the people, between what is selfish and what is selfless. To the extent that you and I develop selflessness in our own hearts, to that extent we contribute to peace in our family, community, country, and world.

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  Country, Selfish, War

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• The eye cannot see it; the mind cannot grasp it. The deathless Self (the Supreme Soul or God) has neither caste nor race, Neither eyes, nor ears, nor hands, nor feet, Sages, this Self is infinite, present in the great and in the small, Everlasting and changeless, the source of life.

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  God, Eye, Race

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• 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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  Opportunity, Our Love, Deprivation

  Eknath Easwaran (1996). “Original Goodness: Elknath Easwaran on the Beatitudes of the Sermon on the Mount”, p.72, Nilgiri Press

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• God made the senses turn outwards, man therefore looks outwards, not into himself. But occasionally a daring soul, desiring immortality, has looked back and found himself.

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  Men, Soul, Looks

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• Excitement and depression, fortune and misfortune, pleasure and pain are storms in a tiny private, shell-bound realm - which we take to be the whole of existence. Yet we can break out of this shell and enter a new world.

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  Pain, Storm, Break Out

  Eknath Easwaran (2007). “The Dhammapada: (Classics of Indian Spirituality)”, p.66, Nilgiri Press

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