Brahm Quotes

#1. Mostly your love is passionate force. But when this passionate force turns itself to be a compassionate force under the guidance of compassionate intelligence, that is where one becomes brahm giani. One knows all, one sees all, one says all.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#2. At birth one is Shudra, through education and samskaras, one becomes cultured (Dwija or twice born), then by practicing the Vedas, one becomes Vipra or knowledgeable and it is only by acquiring the knowledge of the Absolute Brahm, does one become enlightened or Brahmin.

Kamlesh Kapur

#3. Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.

Ajahn Brahm

#4. I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.

Carson McCullers

#5. Ben was it. Her perfect fit - her thrill and balance and heartbeat. (Preeya)

Rissa Brahm

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

Ajahn Brahm

#7. 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

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

Ajahn Brahm

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

Ajahn Brahm

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

Ajahn Brahm

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

Ajahn Brahm

#12. 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

#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. 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

#16. Love isn't the expectation that eventually you'll end up in heartache; it's the expectation that you can fully trust another human being with everything and still hope for a happy ending.

Rachel Van Dyken

#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. Know yourself to be the changeless witness of the changeful mind. That is enough.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#19. I've been right more than I've been wrong.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#20. 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

#21. Hail to the Beast Lord! I waved my spatula for emphasis.
Jim spared me an ugly look and turned to Dali.

Ilona Andrews

#22. 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

#23. Whatever a man knows, whatever is not mere rumbling and roaring that he has heard, can be said in three words.

Ferdinand Kurnberger

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

Ajahn Brahm

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

Ajahn Brahm

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

Ajahn Brahm

#27. 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

#28. Men do not like to admit to even momentary imperfection. My husband forgot the code to turn off the alarm. When the police came, he wouldn't admit he'd forgotten the code ... he turned himself in.

Rita Rudner

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

Ajahn Brahm

#30. Fear is finding fault with the future.

Ajahn Brahm

#31. It amazes me that filmmakers will still film, and audiences will still watch, relationships so bankrupt of human feeling that the characters could be reading dialogue written by a computer.

Roger Ebert

#32. The gods were there to do the duties of a megaphone, because who else would people listen to?

Terry Pratchett

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

Ajahn Brahm

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

Ajahn Brahm

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

Ajahn Brahm

#36. 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. Careful patience is the fastest way!

Ajahn Brahm

#38. I don't think our humanity is on some switch. I think it's more like candles on a cake. It takes a lot to blow them all out at once.

Jewel E. Ann