Eknath Easwaran Quotes

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

The spiritual life of individuals has to be extended both vertically to God and horizontally to other souls; and the more it grows in both directions, the less merely individual and therefore more truly personal it will become.

To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.

My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.

People who are alone all the time never grow. Those hermits just stay the same. It's only through relationships. Relationships change us and make us grow.

One does not fall "in" or "out" of love. One grows in love.

The task is not to perfect yourself, it's to perfect your love.

Love makes you want to be a better man. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.

People can totally tell if you adjust notes even slightly, and I know how important it is to be able to wear the exact fragrance you're attached to. So for me, it was all about reinventing the bottle. I've grown so much in the last 10 years - emotionally, spiritually, and artistically - and I wanted that to show in the new design.

The purpose of romantic relationships is to encourage you to grow spiritually.

Relationships are our primary teacher. They are the context in which we either grow into God consciousness, or deny ourselves and others the opportunity to do so.

It is not until you have the courage to engage in human relationships that you grow.

The purpose of romantic relationships is to encourage you to grow spiritually. Romantic relationships can do this because they are interactions in which you come to see those parts of yourself that are constructive, healthy and creative. You see them because you project them onto someone else.

Focus on fruitful relationships that bring you closer to Jesus Christ.

Your relationship with God, others, yourself, and all creation keeps changing for the better. Most of the world's religions have developed maps to describe this process.

We too often satisfy ourselves with the perishable things of time, forgetting the opportunities we have of developing within us the great, the eternal principles of life and truth. The Lord wishes to establish a closer and more intimate relationship between Himself and us; He wishes to elevate us in the scale of being and intelligence, and this can only be done through the medium of the everlasting Gospel which is specially prepared for this purpose.

Unless the inner changes, the outer can never be perfect.

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature.

In pursuing personal growth, there are issues where we can advance just so far by ourselves. At some point, our continued progress and improvement can only come about through relationships with others. Romantic love is an intense and intimate exposure to another person; if we can be who we want to be, even in that context, then our spiritual growth is exponentially expanded.

Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.

Man is to become divine by realizing the divine. Idols or temples, or churches or books, are only the supports, the help of his spiritual childhood.

Every time you are passing the test, you are coming closer to Krishna.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.

Brethren, do not become children in sense: but in malice be children, and in sense be perfect.