Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.
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.
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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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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Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity in thinking.
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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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Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
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Fear is finding fault with the future.
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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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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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Why seek revenge? Karma is going to get the bastards anyway
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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 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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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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It’s just people being people, the world being the world
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Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires.
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