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1. "Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it." ~ Eknath Easwaran
2. "Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose." ~ Eknath Easwaran
3. "Judged by the normal standards of human affairs, the lives of men and women of God may look overburdened with suffering, and even inconclusive." ~ Eknath Easwaran
4. "Why do you want a new truth when you do not practice what you already know?Far better to read a few books and make them your own than to read many books quickly and superficially." ~ Eknath Easwaran
5. "As meditation deepens, compulsions, cravings, and fits of emotions begin to lose their power to dictate our behavior. We see clearly that choices are possible: we can say yes, or we can say no.... "All we are is the result of what we have thought." By changing our mode of thinking, we can remake ourselves completely." ~ Eknath Easwaran
6. "Peace would always be less compelling than war. Perhaps that was why there was so little of it in the world. (p. 160)" ~ Eknath Easwaran
7. "Around the world–even in some of the countries most troubled by poverty or civil war or pollution–many thoughtful people are making a deep, concerted search for a way to live in harmony with each other and the earth. Their efforts, which rarely reach the headlines, are among the most important events occurring today. Sometimes these people call themselves peace workers, at other times environmentalists, but most of the time they work in humble anonymity. They are simply quiet people changing the world by changing themselves." ~ Eknath Easwaran
8. "Love is so exquisitely elusive. It cannot be bought, cannot be badgered, cannot be hijacked. It is available only in one rare form: as the natural response of a healthy mind and healthy heart." ~ Eknath Easwaran
9. "concentration breeds efficiency while division brings inefficiency, error, and tension." ~ Eknath Easwaran
10. "One learns a good deal in the school of suffering. I wonder what would have happened to me if I had had an easy life, and had not had the privilege of tasting the joys of jail and all it means." ~ Badsha Khan, quote in Nonviolent Soldier of Islam, p. 87" ~ Eknath Easwaran

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