Everything beautiful has to be worked for. Eknath Easwaran More Quotes by Eknath Easwaran More Quotes From Eknath Easwaran The spiritual life is a call to action. But it is a call to ... action without any selfish attachment to the results. Eknath Easwaran selfish attachment spiritual 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. Eknath Easwaran drawing hatred practice 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. Eknath Easwaran glasses winter wind It may sound paradoxical, but however tight our schedule, however many things clamor to be done, we don't need to hurry. If we can keep our mind calm and go about our business with undivided attention, we will not only accomplish more but we'll do a better job - and find ourselves more patient, more at peace. Eknath Easwaran sound mind jobs When we truly are putting others first, we cannot but feel at peace with ourselves. Eknath Easwaran feels firsts When we are at home with ourselves, we are at home everywhere in the world. When we have found peace within ourselves, peace and love follow us wherever we go. Eknath Easwaran and-love home world 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. Eknath Easwaran achievement busy life-is Imagine a hot tub for the mind. That is what meditation is; it can bathe your mind in relaxing thoughts. Eknath Easwaran meditation mind hot 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. Eknath Easwaran emotion choices meditation We have no need to teach pure motives to the mind. All that is necessary to make the mind pure is to undo the negative conditioning to which it has been subjected; then we will be left with Pure, Unconditioned Awareness. Eknath Easwaran mind negative needs We become in part what our senses take in. Eknath Easwaran senses Instead of looking at difficulties as deprivations, we can learn to recognize them as opportunities for deepening and widening our love. Eknath Easwaran deprivation our-love opportunity 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. Eknath Easwaran agitation mind running In the spiritual lore of India there is a story that the Lord whispered only one word in our ears when he sent us into the world: 'Give.' Give freely of your time, your talent, your resources; give without asking for anything in return. This is the secret of living in joy and security. Eknath Easwaran spiritual joy giving The ancestor of every destructive action, every destructive decision, is a negative thought. Eknath Easwaran decision action negative The capacity to be patient, to bear with others through thick and thin, is within the reach of anyone. Eknath Easwaran thick-and-thin patient bears As the web issues out of the spider, As plants sprout from the earth, As hair grows from the body, even so, The sages say, this universe springs from, The deathless Self (the Supreme Soul), the source of life. Eknath Easwaran issues god spring Like Gandhi, like the Buddha, like all great spiritual teachers, Easwaran had no use for beliefs unless they generated actions. Doing, not saying, is what counts. Eknath Easwaran use spiritual teacher 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. Eknath Easwaran judging spiritual character 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. Eknath Easwaran eye race god
