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Ajahn Brahm30 quotes“If you know how to let go and be at peace, you know everything you need to know about living in the world.”
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The ability to love yourself so much that you forgive everything and you are at peace with yourself like a mother loves a child, not trying to be someone.
Ajahn BrahmAjahn Brahm It is remarkable that in such countries people do not feel very free. The second kind of freedom, freedom from desires, is celebrated only in some religious communities. It celebrates contentment, peace that is free from desires.
Ajahn BrahmAjahn Brahm When you have abandoned all past and future, it is as if you have come alive. You are here, mindful…the nature of all types of consciousness reveals itself.
Ajahn BrahmAjahn Brahm When life falls apart always remember that this too will pass. Life will have its unexpected turns.
Ajahn BrahmAjahn Brahm When the weather is hot, keep a cool mind. When the weather is cold, keep a warm heart.
Ajahn BrahmAjahn Brahm What are people searching for in life? God. In the christian scriptures, it says ‘Be still and know you are God.’ What is this? You are peace, compassion, truth, Love, freedom. Real love.
Ajahn BrahmAjahn Brahm The selfless giving, the service, the kindness which you give out into this world that is the currency of (the) meaning (of life).
Ajahn BrahmAjahn Brahm Fear is finding fault with the future.
Ajahn BrahmAjahn Brahm How many times have you tried to solve “the problem”? you’ll be trying to solve it not just until you die but for many more lifetimes. .
Ajahn BrahmAjahn Brahm Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don’t like.
Ajahn BrahmAjahn Brahm When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass.
Ajahn BrahmAjahn Brahm Why seek revenge? Karma is going to get the bastards anyway
Ajahn BrahmAjahn Brahm Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.
Ajahn BrahmAjahn Brahm One can say that the underlying creed of most Western democracies is to protect their people’s freedom to realise their desires, as far as this is possible.
Ajahn BrahmAjahn Brahm Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires.
Ajahn BrahmAjahn Brahm Life is what’s happening while you’re worrying.
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