Ajahn Brahm Quotes

• Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.

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  Wise, Mistake, Learning

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• Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions

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  Complaining, Faults, Findings

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• The secret of life is... everything is out of control.

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  Secret, Life Is, Secret Life

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• If you know how to let go and be at peace, you know everything you need to know about living in the world.

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  Letting Go, Needs, World

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• When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass. Be mindful, be compassionate and nurture the circumstances that find you in this good time so it will last longer. When life falls apart always remember that this too will pass. Life will have its unexpected turns.

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  Fall, Life Is Good, Lasts

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• Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don't like.

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  Love Is, Sometimes, Can Do

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• Why seek revenge? Karma is going to get the bastards anyway

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  Karma, Revenge

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• When the weather is hot, keep a cool mind. When the weather is cold, keep a warm heart.

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  Heart, Weather, Mind

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• How many times have you tried to solve “the problem”? you’ll be trying to solve it not just until you die but for many more lifetimes. Instead, understand that this world is just the play of the senses. It’s the five khandhas doing their thing; it has nothing to do with you. It’s just people being people, the world being the world.

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  Play, People, Trying

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• Understand the place of love in a spiritual life. A powerful and blissful type of love has no conditions, no ownership and no people involved. Be free from fear. Be who you are. That is love.

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  Love, Spiritual, Powerful

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• Life is what's happening while you're worrying.

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  Life, Worry, Life Is

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• Peace is the most valuable commodity. And it's free!

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  Inspiration, Commodity, Valuable

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• Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.

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  Powerful, Meditation, Calm

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• Fear is finding fault with the future.

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  Faults, Findings

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• Love, oneness, is no separation between you and life. It is a progressive letting go, a progressive not fault finding. Just do nothing and love this moment. Its very beautiful and very deep.

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  Love, Beautiful, Letting Go

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• When you have abandoned all past and future, it is as if you have come alive. You are here, mindful...the nature of all types of consciousness reveals itself.

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  Past, Alive, Consciousness

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• The selfless giving, the service, the kindness which you give out into this world that is the currency of (the) meaning (of life).

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  Kindness, Selfless Giving, Meaning Of Life

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• Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity in thinking.

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  Freedom, Thinking, Silence

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• What are people searching for in life? God. In the christian scriptures, it says 'Be still and know you are God.' What is this? You are peace, compassion, truth, Love, freedom. Real love- the ability to love yourself so much that you forgive everything and you are at peace with yourself like a mother loves a child, not trying to be someone.

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  Life, Christian, Mother

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• Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires. It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it at the forefront of national constituitions and bills of human rights. One can say that the underlying creed of most Western democracies is to protect their people's freedom to realise their desires, as far as this is possible. It is remarkable that in such countries people do not feel very free. The second kind of freedom, freedom from desires, is celebrated only in some religious communities. It celebrates contentment, peace that is free from desires.

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  Country, Religious, Buddhist

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• My first meditation teacher told me that there is no such thing as a bad meditation. He was right. During the difficult meditations you build up your strength, which creates meditation for peace.

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  Strength, Teacher, Peace

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