Eknath Easwaran Quotes

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.

Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.

The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate, we ask ourselves, 'Are these words true?' If so, we let them pass on; if not, back they go. At the second gate, we ask, 'Are the necessary?' At the last gate, we ask, 'Are they kind?'

It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.