Famous Eknath Easwaran Quotes

  • Two forces pervade human life, the Gita says: the upward thrust of evolution and the downward pull of our evolutionary past. – Eknath Easwaran

    Two forces pervade human life, the Gita says: the upward thrust of evolution and the downward pull of our evolutionary past.– Eknath Easwaran

  • The goal of meditation is awareness, not relaxation. – Eknath Easwaran

    The goal of meditation is awareness, not relaxation.– Eknath Easwaran

  • A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine. – Eknath Easwaran

    A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.– Eknath Easwaran

  • Anything that tends to make us elated is inevitably going to throw us into depression. – Eknath Easwaran

    Anything that tends to make us elated is inevitably going to throw us into depression.– Eknath Easwaran

  • The mind is powerful, but it needs something to hold on to so it doesn’t wander. – Eknath Easwaran

    The mind is powerful, but it needs something to hold on to so it doesn’t wander.– Eknath Easwaran

  • I have tremendous respect for anyone who can control his palate enough to learn not only to drink beer but to enjoy it too. – Eknath Easwaran

    I have tremendous respect for anyone who can control his palate enough to learn not only to drink beer but to enjoy it too.– Eknath Easwaran

  • Peace would always be less compelling than war. Perhaps that was why there was so little of it in the world. (p. 160) – Eknath Easwaran

    Peace would always be less compelling than war. Perhaps that was why there was so little of it in the world. (p. 160)– Eknath Easwaran

  • We can all avoid travel that is unnecessary we do not need to travel around the world when the source of all joy and all beauty is right within us. – Eknath Easwaran

    We can all avoid travel that is unnecessary we do not need to travel around the world when the source of all joy and all beauty is right within us. – Eknath Easwaran