Eknath Easwaran Quotes

A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

To love, we need to be sensitive to those around us, which is impossible if we are racing through li...

Meditation is the basis of a life of splendid health, untiring energy, unfailing love, and abiding w...

Anything that tends to make us elated is inevitably going to throw us into depression.

Judged by the normal standards of human affairs, the lives of men and women of God may look overburd...

One learns a good deal in the school of suffering. I wonder what would have happened to me if I had ...

As meditation deepens, compulsions, cravings, and fits of emotions begin to lose their power to dict...

But when we train the senses we conserve our vital energy, the very stuff of life. Patient and secur...

Two forces pervade human life, the Gita says: the upward thrust of evolution and the downward pull o...

You occasionally hear it said that spiritual aspirants should drop everything and set off for the wo...

Those who indulge themselves in sense stimulation throughout their lives often end up exhausted, wit...

The mind is powerful, but it needs something to hold on to so it doesn't wander.

Patience is an unfailing remedy for friction in personal relations. Even if a person has never won a...

The goal of meditation is awareness, not relaxation.

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to wo...

If someone who is agitated comes to visit you, wanting to discuss their agitation and weigh the pros...

When people used to complain to the Buddha that they were upset, telling him, "Our children upset us...

I have tremendous respect for anyone who can control his palate enough to learn not only to drink be...

Fasting may not be as easy as feasting, but after a while it is not too different. Both are extremes...

Good books are rare, and to have a really good library, a few shelves are all we need. When I was st...

It is a very difficult secret to understand that when we do not want to possess another selfishly, h...

When Nureyev appeared in San Francisco not long ago there were quite a few ballet fans who flew all ...

The law of karma says that no matter what context I find myself in, it is neither my parents, nor my...

Peace would always be less compelling than war. Perhaps that was why there was so little of it in th...

We can all avoid travel that is unnecessary we do not need to travel around the world when the sourc...

As long as we lean on anything outside ourselves for support, we are going to be insecure. Most of u...

A mind that is racing over worries about the future or recycling resentments from the past is ill eq...

Attention can be trained very naturally, with affection, just as you train a puppy. When something d...

Make wise choices about what you read. Read only what is necessary or worthwhile. And then take the ...

Children naturally ask all kinds of questions and take a long time to tell their stories, and in mil...

To be secure everywhere is the mark of sophistication. To be unshakeable is the mark of courage. To ...

Wherever people gather for selfless ends, there is a vast augmentation of their individual capacitie...

Lovers of God possess intense concentration. In prayer their attention rivets itself so completely o...