“Meditation may require a lifetime to master, but it will have been a lifetime well spent. ... If you want to judge your progress, ask yourself these questions: Am I more loving? Is my judgment sounder? Do I have more energy? Can my mind remain calm under provocation? Am I free from the conditioning of anger, fear, and greed? Spiritual awareness reveals itself as eloquently in character development and selfless action as in mystical states.” IfsWantMindWellsMayHas BeensStatesCharacterActionSpiritualAsksEnergyMeditationProgressAwarenessJudgingMastersDevelopmentJudgmentLifetimeGreedCalmSelflessMysticalConditioningCharacter DevelopmentProvocationSpiritual AwarenessSounder Author:Eknath Easwaran
“If you are angry you will share anger, if you are greedy you will share greed, if you are full of lust you will share your lust. We can share only that which we have, we cannot share that which we don't have. This has to be the fundamental thing to be remembered; hence the first step is meditation and the second step is compassion.” IfsFirstsCompassionStepsMeditationShareAngerFundamentalsAngryGreedLustRememberedFirst StepsGreedy Author:Rajneesh
“Meditation is the alchemy of transforming. The unconscious into the conscious. It gives you a tremendous power, Far greater than anger, greed and lust.” GivingGreaterMeditationConsciousAngerGreedLustUnconsciousTransformingAlchemy Author:Rajneesh
“Meditation is like the moon: it transforms the energy of lust into love, anger into compassion, greed into sharing, aggressiveness into receptivity, ego into humbleness.” EnergyCompassionMeditationMoonEgoAngerGreedLustHumblenessReceptivityAggressivenessAnger Love Author:Rajneesh
“Meditation is nothing but an effort to drop all the foreign elements so that you can see yourself as you were before you were born, mirrored in its purity. It is a great silence and a great joy to be there, and once you start abiding there, there is no death and no time. All fear, all greed, all anger, disappears: one is just there with no idea, no desire.” IdeasJoyDesireBornEffortSilenceMeditationElementsAngerGreedDisappearNo IdeaPurityAbidingGreat Joy Author:Rajneesh
“If you are extremely generous, greed will run away.” IfsLoveWisdomRunningSpiritMeditationYogaGreedGenerousWellnessRunning Away Author:Nirmala Srivastava
“To get rid of greed, you should try to do some sort of a collective social work.” LoveShouldTryingWisdomSpiritSocialMeditationYogaGreedWellnessCollectivesSocial Work Author:Nirmala Srivastava
“How to get rid of the greed is the point and to get rid of the greed is that if I buy something - for whom should I buy this one, for whom should I buy? Ah, this will be all right for another friend of mine, like that. If you train your mind on these lines, not for yourself, but for others, then you'll be amazed this greed will run away and you'll have joy.” IfsLoveShouldMindWisdomRunningJoySpiritLinesMeditationMinesYogaTrainGreedWellnessRunning AwayShould IAmazed Author:Nirmala Srivastava