Be mindful, be compassionate and nurture the circumstances that find you in this good time so it will last longer.
AJAHN BRAHMEveryone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.
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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Why seek revenge? Karma is going to get the bastards anyway
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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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When the weather is hot, keep a cool mind. When the weather is cold, keep a warm heart.
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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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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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Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
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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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Just do nothing and love this moment. Its very beautiful and very deep.
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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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Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity in thinking.
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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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