The secret of life is… everything is out of control.
AJAHN BRAHMHow 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. .
More Ajahn Brahm Quotes
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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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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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Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don’t like.
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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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Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
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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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Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires.
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Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity in thinking.
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Just do nothing and love this moment. Its very beautiful and very deep.
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When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass.
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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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Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.
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It’s just people being people, the world being the world
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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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