Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don’t like.
AJAHN BRAHMThe selfless giving, the service, the kindness which you give out into this world that is the currency of (the) meaning (of life).
More Ajahn Brahm Quotes
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Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
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The secret of life is… everything is out of control.
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When the weather is hot, keep a cool mind. When the weather is cold, keep a warm heart.
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Why seek revenge? Karma is going to get the bastards anyway
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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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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. .
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Just do nothing and love this moment. Its very beautiful and very deep.
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Peace is the most valuable commodity. And it’s free!
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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.
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Fear is finding fault with the future.
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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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It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it at the forefront of national constituitions and bills of human rights.
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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.
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Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires.
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Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.
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