Top 37 Ajahn Brahm Quotes
#1. 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.
Ajahn Brahm
#2. Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.
Ajahn Brahm
#3. Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
Ajahn Brahm
#4. 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
#5. Peace is the most valuable commodity. And it's free!
Ajahn Brahm
#6. If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
John Lennon
#7. Better lite a candle than complain about the darkness
Ajahn Brahm
#8. Whatever you do in your life, Son, the door of my heart will always be open to you.
Ajahn Brahm
#9. any place you don't want to be is a prison.
Ajahn Brahm
#10. Jess wouldn't argue that, but he saw her as a beautiful wild creature who had been caught for a moment in that dirty old cage of a schoolhouse, perhaps by mistake.
Katherine Paterson
#11. Along with enough sleep and taking proper supplements, I steam - in my steam shower. I find it's very healing, more than just your typical 'tea and honey.'
Idina Menzel
#13. 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.
Ajahn Brahm
#14. Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don't like.
Ajahn Brahm
#15. When your sky is covered with the clouds of sadness, smile like the sun and paint your own rainbow.
Debasish Mridha
#16. If you know how to let go and be at peace, you know everything you need to know about living in the world.
Ajahn Brahm
#17. The selfless giving, the service, the kindness which you give out into this world that is the currency of (the) meaning (of life).
Ajahn Brahm
#18. For heaven's sake, this is 2015. I've run the largest technology company in the world. Let me assure you we know how to build an employer verification system that would work. We can solve this. We just need to do it.
John Kasich
#19. 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.
Ajahn Brahm
#20. Still clutching each other by the arm, they turned to watch the last stones plummet over the edge.
"I don't know how many times a day I can stand to watch you almost die," Seregil gasped.
"Twice is my limit," croaked Alec, sinking to his knees.
Lynn Flewelling
#21. given that I'm making decisions that involve so much money and so many people, I can't afford to pretend to know what's up.
Sophia Amoruso
#22. Why seek revenge? Karma is going to get the bastards anyway
Ajahn Brahm
#23. When the weather is hot, keep a cool mind. When the weather is cold, keep a warm heart.
Ajahn Brahm
#24. This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
T. S. Eliot
#25. Life is what's happening while you're worrying.
Ajahn Brahm
#26. 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
Ajahn Brahm
#27. Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.
Ajahn Brahm
#28. Every human institution (Justice included) will stretch a little, if only you pull it in the right way.
Wilkie Collins
#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.
Ajahn Brahm
#30. Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.
Paul The Apostle
#31. I've seen that phenomenally successful people believe they can learn something from everybody. I call them 'mavericks with mentors.' Richard Branson, for instance, is a total maverick but he surrounds himself with incredibly successful, smart people and he listens to them.
Brendon Burchard
#32. The secret of life is ... everything is out of control.
Ajahn Brahm
#33. Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity than thinking.
Ajahn Brahm
#34. The goal of this meditation is beautiful silence, stillness, and clarity of mind.
Ajahn Brahm
#35. 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
#37. Fear is finding fault with the future.
Ajahn Brahm
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