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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Eknath Easwaran quotes about
consciousness splits time
Doing two or more things at the same time splits our consciousness in two or more ways.
grateful compassion calm-mind
A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into fearlessness, and hatred into love.
sorrow guilt done
Whatever we have done, we can always make amends for it without ever looking back in guilt or sorrow.
wise race talking
An unhurried mind brings the capacity to make wise choices every day - choices of how we use our time, of where we place our resources and our love. I am not just talking about avoiding the rat race, but about a life full of an artistic beauty - a life that has almost vanished from modern civilization, but is quite within the reach of everyone.
yoga giving meditation
Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.
kindness real compassion
The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.
prayer real heaven
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.
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.
meditation mind tubs
Imagine a hot tub for the mind. That is what meditation is; it can bathe your mind in relaxing thoughts.
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.
meditation principles
This is the central principle of meditation: we become what we meditate on.
practice drawing hatred
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.
passion forgiving unshakable
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.