Ajahn Brahm quotes

Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight. (Ajahn Brahm)
The secret of life is... everything is out of control. View quote
Ajahn Brahm
Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions. View quote
Ajahn Brahm
When the weather is hot, keep a cool mind. When the weather is cold, keep a warm heart. View quote
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Life is what's happening while you're worrying. View quote
Ajahn Brahm
Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don't like. View quote
Ajahn Brahm
There are two kinds of freedom to be found in our world: the freedom of desires, and the freedom from desires. Our modern Western culture only recognizes the first of these, freedom of desires. It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it at the forefront of national constitutions and bills of human rights. One can say that the underlying creed of most Western democracies is to protect their people's freedom to realize 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. It is remarkable that in such abstemious communities like my monastery, people feel free. View quote
Ajahn Brahm