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Quote by Eknath Easwaran
At the beginning of every winter people are careful to install sto

At the beginning of every winter people are careful to install storm windows. These extra panes of glass protect their houses against the bitter winds. We do something very similar to protect our minds through the practice of meditation. – Eknath Easwaran

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Patience cant be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it. – Eknath Easwaran

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

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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. – Eknath Easwaran

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The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present, nothing-but-in-the-present, to bear this mindfulness of now into each event of ordinary life. – Peter Matthiessen

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Meditation is just a courage to be silent and alone. Slowly slowly, you start feeling a new quality to yourself, a new aliveness, a new beauty, a new intelligence—which is not borrowed from anybody, which is growing within you. It has roots in your existence. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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When they go fishing, it is not really fish they are after. It is a philosophic meditation. – E.T.Brown

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