Instead of looking at difficulties as deprivations, we can learn to recognize them as opportunities for deepening and widening our love.
Eknath Easwaran
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A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.
A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into fearlessness, and hatred into love.
Meditation is warm-up exercise for the mind, so that you can jog through the rest of the day without getting agitated or spraining your patience.
When someone at peace and free from hurry enters a room, that person has a calming effect on everyone present.
Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.
Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily. If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow.
Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.
When we go slower, we are more patient and when we are more patient we have a choice in how we respond.
When we meditate every morning we are putting on armor for the day's battle against our own impatience, inadequacy, resentment, and hostility.
The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.
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