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“ A mind that is racing over worries about the future or recycling resentments from the past is ill equipped to handle the challenges of the moment. By slowing down, we can train the mind to focus completely in the present. Then we will find that we can function well whatever the difficulties. That is what it means to be stress-proof: not avoiding stress but being at our best under pressure, calm, cool, and creative in the midst of the storm. ”

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Judged by the normal standards of human affairs, the lives of men and women of God may look overburdened with suffering, and even inconclusive.

~ Eknath Easwaran

Eknath Easwaran Faith Suffering

It is a very difficult secret to understand that when we do not want to possess another selfishly, he or she will always love us. It is when we do not want to possess, when we do not make demand after demand, that the relationship will last.

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Eknath Easwaran Jealousy Relationships Selflessness

You occasionally hear it said that spiritual aspirants should drop everything and set off for the woods, or go to India and wander about on the slopes of the Himalayas. But only through daily contact with people--not trees or brooks or deer--can we train ourselves to be selfless in personal relationships.

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Eknath Easwaran Connection Enlightenment Friendship Meditation Relationships Selfless

As meditation deepens, compulsions, cravings, and fits of emotions 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.... All we are is the result of what we have thought. By changing our mode of thinking, we can remake ourselves completely.

~ Eknath Easwaran

Eknath Easwaran Meditation Spirituality