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Eknath Easwaran Quotes: Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.
         

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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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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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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When we go slower, we are more patient and when we are more patient we have a choice in how we respond.



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When we meditate every morning we are putting on armor for the day's battle against our own impatience, inadequacy, resentment, and hostility.



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The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.



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Every angry thought makes it a little easier to get angry the next time, and a little more likely.





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