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The spiritual life is a call to action. But it is a call to ... action without any selfish attachment to the results.

Eknath Easwaran

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Eknath Easwaran
Age: 88 †
Born: 1910
Born: December 17
Died: 1999
Died: October 26
Author
Philosopher
Translator
Keralam
Call
Spiritual
Action
Without
Life
Attachment
Selfish
Results

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Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily. If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow.
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An unhurried mind brings the capacity to make wise choices every day - choices of how we use our time, of where we place our resources and our love. I am not just talking about avoiding the rat race, but about a life full of an artistic beauty - a life that has almost vanished from modern civilization, but is quite within the reach of everyone.
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When the mind is still, we can become an instrument of peace.
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Every angry thought makes it a little easier to get angry the next time, and a little more likely.
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Do not feed your ego and your problems with your attention. ...Slowly, surely, the ego will lose weight, until one fine day it will be nothing but a thin ghost of its former self. You will be able to see right through it, to the divine presence that shines in each of us.
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Today, everything I do from morning meditation on - eating breakfast, going for a walk, writing, reading, even recreation - is governed by one purpose only: how to give the very best account of my life that I can in the service of all.
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International war is the sum total of millions of individual wars, raging in the minds of the people, between what is selfish and what is selfless. To the extent that you and I develop selflessness in our own hearts, to that extent we contribute to peace in our family, community, country, and world.
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Our deepest need is for the joy that comes with knowing we are of genuine use to others.
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When we go slower, we are more patient and when we are more patient we have a choice in how we respond.
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Wisdom may be perennial, but to see its relevance we must see it lived out.
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