Love is so exquisitely elusive. It cannot be bought, cannot be badgered, cannot be hijacked. It is available only in one rare form: as the natural response of a healthy mind and healthy heart.
Eknath Easwaran
Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.
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It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.
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Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.
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Doing two or more things at the same time splits our consciousness in two or more ways.
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Judged by the normal standards of human affairs, the lives of men and women of God may look overburdened with suffering, and even inconclusive.
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Peace would always be less compelling than war. Perhaps that was why there was so little of it in the world. (p. 160)
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By giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.
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But patience can't be acquired overnight. It's just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it, to push its limits.
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