If 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.
More Ajahn Brahm Quotes
-
-
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 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 BRAHM -
Love, oneness, is no separation between you and life. It is a progressive letting go, a progressive not fault finding.
AJAHN BRAHM -
Understand the place of love in a spiritual life. A powerful and blissful type of love has no conditions, no ownership and no people involved. Be free from fear. Be who you are. That is love.
AJAHN BRAHM -
Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires.
AJAHN 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 BRAHM -
The secret of life is… everything is out of control.
AJAHN BRAHM -
Fear is finding fault with the future.
AJAHN BRAHM -
It’s just people being people, the world being the world
AJAHN BRAHM -
Peace is the most valuable commodity. And it’s free!
AJAHN 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 BRAHM -
When the weather is hot, keep a cool mind. When the weather is cold, keep a warm heart.
AJAHN BRAHM -
Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.
AJAHN BRAHM -
It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it at the forefront of national constituitions and bills of human rights.
AJAHN BRAHM -
Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don’t like.
AJAHN BRAHM