The goal of meditation is awareness, not relaxation. - Eknath Easwaran
Those who indulge themselves in sense stimulation throughout their lives often end up exhausted, with an enfeebled will and little capacity to love others. - Eknath Easwaran
Patience is an unfailing remedy for friction in personal relations. Even if a person has never won a beauty contest, has no money in the bank, can't even change a flat tire, if he or she has inexhaustible patience, then we will find that life with such a person will never grow stale. - Eknath Easwaran
Two forces pervade human life, the Gita says: the upward thrust of evolution and the downward pull of our evolutionary past. - Eknath Easwaran
I am time, the destroyer of all; I have come to consume the world. - Eknath Easwaran
The mind is powerful, but it needs something to hold on to so it doesn't wander. - Eknath Easwaran