Eknath Easwaran
Eknath Easwaran
Eknath Easwaranwas a spiritual teacher, an author of books on meditation and ways to lead a fulfilling life, as well as a translator and interpreter of Indian literature...
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CountryIndia
Eknath Easwaran quotes about
patience building-up needs
Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.
running mind way
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.'
spiritual lasts firsts
The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate, we ask ourselves, 'Are these words true?' If so, we let them pass on; if not, back they go. At the second gate, we ask, 'Are the necessary?' At the last gate, we ask, 'Are they kind?'
god eye self
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.
spiritual selfish attachment
The spiritual life is a call to action. But it is a call to ... action without any selfish attachment to the results.
meditation mind tubs
Imagine a hot tub for the mind. That is what meditation is; it can bathe your mind in relaxing thoughts.
firsts feels
When we truly are putting others first, we cannot but feel at peace with ourselves.
yesterday important phrases
I have never been able to understand the compelling phrase, 'keeping up with the Joneses.' It does not matter very much whether I keep up with Tom Jones or anybody else; what is important is to keep up with myself by making my today a little better than my yesterday.
relationship rough-edges perfect
Human relationships are the perfect tool for sanding away our rough edges and getting at the core of divinity within us.
self shining ego
Do not feed your ego and your problems, with your attention. ...Slowly, surely, the ego will lose weight, until one fine day it will be nothing but a thin ghost of its former self. You will be able to see right through it, to the divine presence that shines in each of us.
god spring self
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.
spiritual teacher use
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.
meditation principles
This is the central principle of meditation: we become what we meditate on.
moving diversity people
As we get deeper, we move closer and closer to other people; we feel closer to life as a whole.