Life is what’s happening while you’re worrying.
AJAHN BRAHMIt 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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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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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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Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
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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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Fear is finding fault with the future.
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Why seek revenge? Karma is going to get the bastards anyway
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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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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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Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity in thinking.
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The 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.
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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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When life falls apart always remember that this too will pass. Life will have its unexpected turns.
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When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass.
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Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires.
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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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