Eknath Easwaran Quotes - Page 3

• The spiritual life is a call to action. But it is a call to ... action without any selfish attachment to the results.

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  Spiritual, Selfish, Attachment

  Eknath Easwaran (2000). “A More Ardent Fire”, p.111, Nilgiri Press

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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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• Everything beautiful has to be worked for.

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  Precioso

  Eknath Easwaran (2010). “Words to Live By: Short Readings of Daily Wisdom”, p.234, Nilgiri Press

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• The ancestor of every destructive action, every destructive decision, is a negative thought.

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  Decision, Negative, Action

  Eknath Easwaran (2010). “Words to Live By: Short Readings of Daily Wisdom”, p.18, Nilgiri Press

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• Activity is not achievement. It is not enough to rush about beginning a lot of things and keeping busy. A well-spent life is one that rounds out what it has begun.

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  Achievement, Life Is, Busy

  Eknath Easwaran (2010). “Words to Live By: Short Readings of Daily Wisdom”, p.194, Nilgiri Press

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• By removing that which is petty and self-seeking, we bring forth all that is glorious and mindful of the whole.

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  Self, Mindfulness, Glorious

  Eknath Easwaran (2010). “Timeless Wisdom: Passages for Meditation from the World's Saints and Sages”, p.13, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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• My grandmother lived in a universe filled with life. It was impossible for her to conceive of any creature - even the smallest insect, let alone a human being - as insignificant. In every leaf, flower, animal, and star she saw an expression of a compassionate universe, whose laws were not competition and survival of the fittest but cooperation, artistry and thrift. . . .

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  Stars, Flower, Grandmother

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• Wisdom may be perennial, but to see its relevance we must see it lived out.

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  Wisdom, May, Relevance

  Eknath Easwaran (2009). “Essence of the Upanishads: A Key to Indian Spirituality”, p.8, Nilgiri Press

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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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• As we get deeper, we move closer and closer to other people; we feel closer to life as a whole.

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  Moving, People, Diversity

  Eknath Easwaran (2010). “Conquest of Mind: Take Charge of Your Thoughts & Reshape Your Life Through Meditation”, p.64, Nilgiri Press

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• We become in part what our senses take in.

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  Sentidos

  Eknath Easwaran (2000). “A More Ardent Fire”, p.227, Nilgiri Press

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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 cozy! I'm going to curl up in here by myself; let the world burn.' Not at all. We go deep into meditation so that we can reach out further and further to the world outside.

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  Thinking, Meditation, Cozy

  Eknath Easwaran (2010). “Words to Live By: Short Readings of Daily Wisdom”, p.169, Nilgiri Press

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• We can all learn to conquer hatred through love -drawing on the power released through the practice of meditation to throw all our weight, all our energy, and all our will on the side of what is patient, forgiving, and selfless in ourselves and others.

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  Practice, Drawing, Hatred

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• At the beginning of every winter people are careful to install storm windows. These extra panes of glass protect their houses against the bitter winds. We do something very similar to protect our minds through the practice of meditation.

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  Winter, Glasses, Wind

  Eknath Easwaran (1993). “Your life is your message: finding harmony with yourself, others, & the earth”, Nilgiri Pr

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• Imagine a hot tub for the mind. That is what meditation is; it can bathe your mind in relaxing thoughts.

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  Meditation, Mind, Hot

  Eknath Easwaran (2010). “Words to Live By: Short Readings of Daily Wisdom”, p.226, Nilgiri Press

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• Eventually, meditation will make our mind calm, clear, and as concentrated as a laser which we can focus at will. This capacity of one-pointed attention is the essence of genius. When we have this mastery over attention in everything we do, we have a genius for life.

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  Essence, Focus, Meditation

  "Palabras para vivir: Lecturas breves de sabiduría cotidiana".

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• 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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  Running, Mind, Agitation

  Eknath Easwaran (2009). “The Mantram Handbook: A Practical Guide to Choosing Your Mantram & Calming Your Mind”, p.13, Nilgiri Press

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• Como Gandhi, como Buda, como todos los grandes maestros espirituales, a Easwaran no le servían las creencias si no generaban acciones. Hacer, no decir, es lo que cuenta.

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  Spiritual, Teacher, Use

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• Mastery does not come from dabbling. We have to be prepared to pay the price. We need to have the sustained enthusiasm that motivates us to give our best.

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  Pay The Price, Giving, Enthusiasm

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• 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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  Home, Compassion, Elephants

  Eknath Easwaran "El universo compasivo: El poder del individuo para sanar el medio ambiente", Nilgiri Press

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• Como la tela sale de la araña, como las plantas brotan de la tierra, como el cabello crece del cuerpo, así también, dicen los sabios, este universo brota del Ser inmortal (el Alma Suprema), la fuente de la vida.

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  God, Spring, Issues

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