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 BRAHMThe 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 BRAHMOur modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires.
AJAHN BRAHMOne 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 BRAHMIf you know how to let go and be at peace, you know everything you need to know about living in the world.
AJAHN BRAHMWhen life falls apart always remember that this too will pass. Life will have its unexpected turns.
AJAHN BRAHMPeace is the most valuable commodity. And it’s free!
AJAHN BRAHMComplaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
AJAHN BRAHMBe mindful, be compassionate and nurture the circumstances that find you in this good time so it will last longer.
AJAHN BRAHMEveryone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.
AJAHN BRAHMInstead, 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 BRAHMJust do nothing and love this moment. Its very beautiful and very deep.
AJAHN BRAHMIt 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 BRAHMSilence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity in thinking.
AJAHN BRAHMWhen 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 BRAHMIt then worships such a freedom by enshrining it at the forefront of national constituitions and bills of human rights.
AJAHN BRAHMLove, oneness, is no separation between you and life. It is a progressive letting go, a progressive not fault finding.
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