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Eknath Easwaran Quotes

Eknath Easwaran (December 17, 1910 – October 26, 1999) was a spiritual teacher, an author of books on meditation and ways to lead a fulfilling life, as well as a translator and interpreter of Indian literature. In 1961 Easwaran founded the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation and Nilgiri Press, based in northern California. Nilgiri Press publishes over two dozen books he authored. Eknath Easwaran was influenced by Gandhi, whom Easwaran met when he was a young man.

Selected Quotes of Eknath Easwaran are:

Love is a full-time occupation, a continuous state of mind.
Around the world–even in some of the countries most troubled by poverty or civil war or pollution–many thoughtful people are making a deep, concerted search for a way to live in harmony with each other and the earth. Their efforts, which rarely reach the headlines, are among the most important events occurring today. Sometimes these people call themselves peace workers, at other times environmentalists, but most of the time they work in humble anonymity. They are simply quiet people changing the world by changing themselves.
Love is so exquisitely elusive. It cannot be bought, cannot be badgered, cannot be hijacked. It is available only in one rare form: as the natural response of a healthy mind and healthy heart.
Judged by the normal standards of human affairs, the lives of men and women of God may look overburdened with suffering, and even inconclusive.
By virtue of being human, each of us has the capacity to choose, to change, to grow.
Above all else, the love of God is free, because freedom is the breath and soul of love.
The capacity to be patient, to bear with others through thick and thin, is within the reach of anyone.
As we forgive others, we are teaching the mind to respond to forgiveness everywhere, even in the misdeeds and mistakes of our own past.
But patience can't be acquired overnight. It's just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it, to push its limits.
By giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.
We can choose our suffering to be meaningful or meaningless.
We all need joy, and we can all receive joy in only one way, by adding to the joy of others.
Doing two or more things at the same time splits our consciousness in two or more ways.
Repeating the Holy Name is a powerful way to harness a very natural tendency of the human mind: to brood.
Whenever you look into another person's eyes, remember that you are looking into a city where the Lord dwells- and remember always that our arms and hands were given to us for others' rescue, not for their ruin.
When mystics use the word love, they use it very carefully -- in the deeply spiritual sense, where to love is to know; to love is to act. If you really love, from the depths of your Consciousness, that love gives you a native wisdom. You perceive the needs of others intuitively and clearly, with detachment from any personal desires; and you know how to act creatively to meet those needs, dexterously surmounting any obstacle that comes in the way. Such is the immense, driving power of love.
One Profound but simple secret is that when you love someone deeply, you want to share everything with that person.
The Lord is in everyone; therefore we must practice love and trust and selfless service with everyone every where.