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Eknath Easwaran Quotes about Meditation

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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.

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.

Eknath Easwaran
Exercise, Meditation, Mind
Eknath Easwaran (2010). “Conquest of Mind: Take Charge of Your Thoughts & Reshape Your Life Through Meditation”, p.38, Nilgiri Press

As meditation deepens, compulsions, cravings and fits of emotion begin to lose their power to dictate our behavior. We see clearly that choices are possible; we can say yes or we can say no. It is profoundly liberating.

Eknath Easwaran
Meditation, Choices, Emotion
Eknath Easwaran (2008). “Passage Meditation: Bringing the Deep Wisdom of the Heart Into Daily Life”, p.21, Nilgiri Press

This is the central principle of meditation: we become what we meditate on.

Eknath Easwaran
Meditation, Principles
Eknath Easwaran (1996). “Original Goodness: Elknath Easwaran on the Beatitudes of the Sermon on the Mount”, p.14, Nilgiri Press

Don't think the purpose of meditation is to go deep into consciousness, wrap a blanket around yourself, and say, 'How cozy! I'm going to curl up in here by myself; let the world burn.' Not at all. We go deep into meditation so that we can reach out further and further to the world outside.

Eknath Easwaran
Thinking, Meditation, Cozy
Eknath Easwaran (2010). “Words to Live By: Short Readings of Daily Wisdom”, p.169, Nilgiri Press

Imagine a hot tub for the mind. That is what meditation is; it can bathe your mind in relaxing thoughts.

Eknath Easwaran
Meditation, Mind, Hot
Eknath Easwaran (2010). “Words to Live By: Short Readings of Daily Wisdom”, p.226, Nilgiri Press

Eventually, meditation will make our mind calm, clear, and as concentrated as a laser which we can focus at will. This capacity of one-pointed attention is the essence of genius. When we have this mastery over attention in everything we do, we have a genius for life.

Eknath Easwaran
Essence, Focus, Meditation
"Words to Live By: Short Readings of Daily Wisdom".

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