Eknath Easwaran - Life Quotes

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Every human heart has a deep need to love - to be in love, really, with all of life. This is the kind of love that comes when the mind is still.... Be still and know that we are all God's children; then you will be in love with all.

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

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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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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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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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The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.

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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.

Eknath Easwaran