Ajahn Brahm Quotes

#1. 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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#2. Why seek revenge? Karma is going to get the bastards anyway

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#3. When the weather is hot, keep a cool mind. When the weather is cold, keep a warm heart.

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#4. Life is what's happening while you're worrying.

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#5. We should always be grateful for the faults in our partner because if they didn't have those faults from the start, they would have been able to marry someone much better than us

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#6. Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.

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#7. The secret of life is ... everything is out of control.

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#8. Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity than thinking.

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#9. The goal of this meditation is beautiful silence, stillness, and clarity of mind.

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#10. My first meditation teacher told me that there is no such thing as a bad meditation. He was right. During the difficult meditations you build up your strength, which creates meditation for peace.

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#11. Careful patience is the fastest way!

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#12. Fear is finding fault with the future.

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#13. 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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#14. Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions

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#15. Love, oneness, is no separation between you and life. It is a progressive letting go, a progressive not fault finding. Just do nothing and love this moment. Its very beautiful and very deep.

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#16. Peace is the most valuable commodity. And it's free!

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#17. Better lite a candle than complain about the darkness

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#18. Whatever you do in your life, Son, the door of my heart will always be open to you.

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#19. any place you don't want to be is a prison.

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#20. When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass. Be mindful, be compassionate and nurture the circumstances that find you in this good time so it will last longer. When life falls apart always remember that this too will pass. Life will have its unexpected turns.

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#21. 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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#22. Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don't like.

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#23. If you know how to let go and be at peace, you know everything you need to know about living in the world.

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#24. 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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#25. To think that you will be happy by becoming something else is delusion. Becoming something else just exchanges one form of suffering for another form of suffering. But when you are content with who you are now, junior or senior, married or single, rich or poor, then you are free of suffering.

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