Passage Meditation - A Complete Spiritual Practice: Train Your Mind and Find a Life that Fulfills (Essential Easwaran Library Book 1)

we don’t need to turn our backs on the innocent delights of life to be spiritual. We can participate fully in life as long as we are trying our best to put those around us first.

When we keep pointing a finger of judgment at others, we are teaching our mind a lasting habit of condemnation. Sooner or later, that finger of judgment will be aimed point-blank at ourselves.

There is only one way to make others more loving, and that is by loving more ourselves.

any concentrated activity can be right recreation.

under no circumstances should we refuse to acknowledge that the other person has a point of view — one that deserves to be listened to with respect and evaluated with detachment.

The relief we get from a movie or a theater performance doesn’t come from the activity. It comes from concentration.

we have to focus on what is positive and never give in to negative thinking. Love, sympathy, and forbearance require steady strength of mind.

Your mind is empty of yourself, true; but that is also to say it is full of God.

We aren’t helping inconsiderate people when we give in to their demands or let them walk all over us. It only feeds the habit of rudeness to let them have their way. The more insensitive the other person is, the more reason for you to alert your mind to be calm and compassionate and, if necessary, to face opposition firmly but tenderly.