Eknath Easwaran Quotes

By defilement of mind, beings are defiled; by purification of mind, beings are purified.

Many people see themselves as a problem that needs to be solved. They also habitually see the present moment as an obstacle that they need to overcome or get away from. With awareness, an inner sense of spaciousness arises that enables you to look at your own mind, which is to say the human mind, with a certain degree of detachment.

Let your ears hear without trying to hear. Let the mind think without trying to think and without trying to stop it. That is practice.

Your mind must be at its best for God before it becomes His dwelling place.

When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it.

We cannot empty the mind by thinking. Only by observation.

To be more aware, we need only listen for and let go of the thoughts which steal our attention.

Meditation is to be aware of what is going on in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world.

We are what we think, and all that we are rises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak and act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.

Be mindful even if your mind is full

Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones

Only no-mind can be without any duality, because it is empty. The no-mind is choicelessness. The no-mind is pure awareness. It is just the empty sky.

When there is no mind, you are in yoga; when there is mind you are not in yoga. So you may do all the postures, but if the mind goes on functioning, if you go on thinking, you are not in yoga.

Mind is the absence of meditation. The moment meditation arises in you, mind is found nowhere.

Mindfulness meditation is the embrace of any and all mind states in awareness, without preferring one to another.

The unconditioned mind intuits truth.

Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen!

The life of action need not be renounced. If you meditate for an hour or two every day you can then carry on with your duties. If you meditate in the right manner then the current of mind induced will continue to flow even in the midst of your work.

Sincere thought means thought of concentration (quiet awareness). The thought of a distracted mind cannot be sincere

One of the names of Buddha is TATHAGATA - one who lives in suchness, one who has become free from all the distractions of the mind. And the miracle is that the mind consists only of distraction, so once you are free of all distractions there is no mind left. In the present there is no mind. In the present there is only consciousness, awareness, watchfulness.

Mind only thinks, meditation lives.

Mindfulness is like that—it is the miracle which can call back in a flash our dispersed mind and restore it to wholeness so that we can live each minute of life.

I tried to hold on to this compassion, sensing its preciousness, but even as I reached to grasp it, it dissipated into wisps. No revelation can endure unless it is bolstered by a calm pure mind- and I'm afraid I didn't possess that.

A crowd is not necessarily company, but neither need it necessarily prevent thought or disturb peace of mind.