Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don’t like.
AJAHN BRAHMJust do nothing and love this moment. Its very beautiful and very deep.
More Ajahn Brahm Quotes
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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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It’s just people being people, the world being the world
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Just do nothing and love this moment. Its very beautiful and very deep.
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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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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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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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Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
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Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires.
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Why seek revenge? Karma is going to get the bastards anyway
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Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity in thinking.
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Peace is the most valuable commodity. And it’s free!
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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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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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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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