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

We simply cannot afford to pay the price of hurry, however attractive the packaging. The price is our very life.

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.

In slowing down, attend meticulously to details, giving the very best you are capable of even to the smallest undertaking.

We are not mere victims of our environment, and we don’t have to go fast just because everybody else does and urges us to do it too.

Deepening meditation and the physiological changes that accompany it require a body that works beautifully at all times. We must do what we can to make the body a good ally. We must give it what it needs: adequate sleep every night, wholesome, nourishing food in reasonable quantities, and lots of vigorous movement.

We don’t have to compare our lives or work with others’. All that is expected of us is that we give our very best to whatever responsibilities come our way. As our capacity to contribute increases, greater responsibilities will come to us.

Everywhere, knowing how to stop short of satiety helps you to savor life and, more important, helps you to be free.

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.

We see just what we can be as human beings: our capacity to choose, to change, to endure, to know, to love, to radiate spiritual glory.

Slowing down, on the other hand, is not inefficient. It means more efficiency. It means you will make fewer mistakes, have fewer accidents, and do a more creative job.