Eknath Easwaran Quotes

Love asks nothing in return, but seeks those who need it. And who needs our love more than those who are consumed with hatred and are utterly devoid of love.

Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.

Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.

I got no hate in me.

All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.

I am not able of hating. I am not able of hating.

Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

He refused to let hate make him hate.

Throw out the fun-killers that you carry about with yourselves all the time. Three of them are lust, greed, and hatred.

Non-violence is the essence of the entire Buddha's teaching, and the practice of non-violence is the entire essence of the practice of Buddha dharma, Buddhist spirituality, in one's life.

I'm a spiritual dude, and a part of me is forgiving.

Hate cannot overcome hate; only love can do that.

Never by hatred is hatred appeased, but it is appeased by kindness. This is an eternal truth.

The Lord heareth the prayers of those who ask to put aside hatred. But he is deaf to those who would flee from love.

Hatred can be overcome only by love.

Grace is the wonderful spirit that imbues every fiber of our being when we practice the fruits of the spirit: kindness, patience, understanding, forgiveness, love, gentleness, fellowship and endurance.

Infinite altruism is the basis of peace and happiness. If you want altruism, you must control hate and you must practice patience. The main teachers of patience are our enemies.

If indeed the qualities such as love, patience, tolerance, and forgiveness are what happiness consists in, and if it is also true that compassion, defined as concern for others, is both the source and the fruit of these qualities, then the more we are compassionate, the more we provide for our own happiness.

The path of those who preach love, and not hatred, is not easy. They often have to wear a crown of thorns.

Hatreds never cease by hatreds in this world. By love alone they cease. This is an ancient Law.

Love opens all doors, no matter how tightly closed they may be, no matter how rusty from lack of use. Your work is to bring unity and harmony, to open all those doors which have been closed for a long time. Have patience and tolerance. Open your heart all the time.