Ajahn Brahm All Is Well Quotes

#1. Everybody's got pretty good players now, more players than there've ever been. If you play poorly, you're going to get beat.

Bear Bryant

#2. Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions

Ajahn Brahm

#3. I flew this past weekend. I went through airport security and said to the guy, 'Is everything okay?' He said, 'You might want to have that mole on your ass checked out.' That seems a little personal to me.

Jay Leno

#4. To be native to a place we must learn to speak its language.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

#5. 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.

Ajahn Brahm

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

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

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

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

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#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don't like.

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#14. 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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#15. 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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#16. 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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#17. I followed myself around like a bully, narrating my thoughts and actions with a constant stream of abuse.

Allie Brosh

#18. I was going to be a singer. If I hadn't been in my profession, I was going to be an Opera singer. That's from a young kid. I had all these records from all those famous Opera singers. I wanted to be an Opera singer
that was my whole thing and physical fitness got in the way, thank God.

Jack LaLanne

#19. The real dirt is not outside, but inside, in our hearts.
We can wash all stains with water. The only one we can't remove is the grudge and the bad intentions sticking to our hearts.

Shams-i Tabrizi

#20. Sin is the monarch that rules the heart of every man. It is the first lord of the soul, and its virus has contaminated every living being.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

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

Ajahn Brahm

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

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#23. Education is neither eastern nor western.

Malala Yousafzai

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

Ajahn Brahm

#25. 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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#26. I did not tremble to lose what men called beauty, but I feared the loss of my spirit and humor and love of living, the things I believed made my soul human and vibrant.

David Liss

#27. My dear fellow, the way you flirt with Gwendolen is perfectly disgraceful. It is almost as disgraceful as the way Gwendolen flirts with you.

Oscar Wilde

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

Ajahn Brahm

#29. 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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#30. The secret of life is ... everything is out of control.

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

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

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#33. The cleavage between the scientific and the extra-scientific domain of experience is, I believe, not a cleavage between the concrete and the transcendental but between the metrical and the non-metrical.

Arthur Stanley Eddington

#34. 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.

Ajahn Brahm

#35. Careful patience is the fastest way!

Ajahn Brahm

#36. [In 2007] People's relationship with a brand is becoming a dialog, not a monolog.

Lee Clow

#37. Fear is finding fault with the future.

Ajahn Brahm