Eknath Easwaran

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.

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

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

Having come to realize in the first stage of meditation that we are not our bodies, in the second stage we make an even more astounding discovery; we are not our minds either.

The ancestor of every destructive action, every destructive decision, is a negative thought.