Quotes from Ajahn Brahm

When the weather is hot, keep a cool mind. When the weather is cold, keep a warm heart.

Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don't like.

We should always be grateful for the faults in our partner because if they didn't have those faults from the start, they would have been able to marry someone much better than us

When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass. Be mindful, be compassionate and nurture the circumstances that find you in this good time so it will last longer. When life falls apart always remember that this too will pass. Life will have its unexpected turns.

To think that you will be happy by becoming something else is delusion. Becoming something else just exchanges one form of suffering for another form of suffering. But when you are content with who you are now, junior or senior, married or single, rich or poor, then you are free of suffering.

Berapa banyak waktu dalam hidup yang kita sia-siakan karena mengkhawatirkan sesuatu yang, pada saat itu, tak memiliki solusi, dan karena itu, bukanlah sebuah masalah?

Better lite a candle than complain about the darkness

Whatever you do in your life, Son, the door of my heart will always be open to you.

How many times have you tried to solve "the problem"? you'll be trying to solve it not just until you die but for many more lifetimes. Instead, understand that this world is just the play of the senses. It's the five khandhas doing their thing; it has nothing to do with you. It's just people being people, the world being the world.

Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity than thinking.

any place you don't want to be is a prison.

Why allow other people to control your inner happiness?

Grief is what we add on to loss. It is a learned response, specific to some cultures only. It is not universal and it is not unavoidable. ... Grief is seeing only what has been taken away from you. The celebration of a life is recognizing all that we were blessed with, and feeling so very grateful.

We all deserve to get away and have some peace; and others deserve the peace of us getting out of their way!

Sir, if someone took a Buddhist holy book and flushed it down my toilet, the first thing I would do is call a plumber!

Careful patience is the fastest way!

The goal of this meditation is beautiful silence, stillness, and clarity of mind.

Tugovati zna?i vidjeti samo ono što vam je oduzeto. Slavljenje života zna?i prepoznati sve ?ime smo blagoslovljeni i osje?ati zahvalnost.

I figured out once that if you decide to have fun when you give a public talk, then you relax. It is psychologically impossible to have fear and fun at the same time. When I am relaxed, ideas flow freely into my mind during my talk, then leave through my mouth with the smoothness of eloquence. Moreover, the audience doesn't get bored when it is fun.

All you need to do is follow the instructions: Sit down, shut up, watch, and don't get involved. Gradually, the meditation experience will open up all by itself.

The secret of life is ... everything is out of control.

If you know how to let go and be at peace, you know everything you need to know about living in the world." – Ajahn Brahm

Delusion is so incredibly powerful, much more pervasive than most people know. As Voltaire quipped, "The only way to comprehend the mathematical concept of infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

It is the high value that one gives to one's own thoughts that is the main obstacle to silent awareness. Wisely removing the importance that one gives to thinking, and realizing the greater accuracy of silent awareness, opens the door to inner silence.