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 BRAHMThe secret of life is… everything is out of control.
More Ajahn Brahm Quotes
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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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When life falls apart always remember that this too will pass. Life will have its unexpected turns.
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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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Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
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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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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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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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Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.
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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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Fear is finding fault with the future.
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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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Peace is the most valuable commodity. And it’s free!
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My first meditation teacher told me that there is no such thing as a bad meditation. He was right. During the difficult meditations you build up your strength, which creates meditation for peace.
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Life is what’s happening while you’re worrying.
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Why seek revenge? Karma is going to get the bastards anyway
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