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 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.
More Ajahn Brahm Quotes
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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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It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it at the forefront of national constituitions and bills of human rights.
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Why seek revenge? Karma is going to get the bastards anyway
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When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass.
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The selfless giving, the service, the kindness which you give out into this world that is the currency of (the) meaning (of life).
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Fear is finding fault with the future.
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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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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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The secret of life is… everything is out of control.
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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.
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Peace is the most valuable commodity. And it’s free!
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It’s just people being people, the world being the world
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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.
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Life is what’s happening while you’re worrying.
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Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires.
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