Instead, understand that this world is just the play of the senses. It’s the five khandhas doing their thing; it has nothing to do with you.
AJAHN BRAHMPeace is the most valuable commodity. And it’s free!
More Ajahn Brahm Quotes
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Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity in thinking.
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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.
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Fear is finding fault with the future.
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Love, oneness, is no separation between you and life. It is a progressive letting go, a progressive not fault finding.
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Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
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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.
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The secret of life is… everything is out of control.
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When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass.
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Peace is the most valuable commodity. And it’s free!
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When life falls apart always remember that this too will pass. Life will have its unexpected turns.
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It’s just people being people, the world being the world
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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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Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don’t like.
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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.
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It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it at the forefront of national constituitions and bills of human rights.
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