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Your Life Is Your Message
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Once, while Mahatma Gandhi’s train was pulling slowly out of the station, a European reporter ran up to his compartment window. “Do you have a message I can take back to my people?” he asked. It was Gandhi’s day of silence, a vital respite from his demanding speaking schedule, so he didn’t reply. Instead, he scrawled a few words on a scrap of paper and passed it to the reporter:
“My life is my message.”
Your Life is Your Message
finding harmony with yourself,
others & the earth
Eknath Easwaran
©1992, 2020 by The Blue Mountain Center of Meditation.
All rights reserved.
First edition (reissued).
isbn : 978-158638-146-2
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Easwaran, Eknath.
Your life is your message : finding harmony with yourself,
others & the earth / by Eknath Easwaran
p. cm.
isbn 0–915132–75–3 (alk. paper)
isbn 0–915132–74–5 (pbk: alk. paper)
1. Meditations I. Title
BL624.2.E38 1992 242 – dc20
92–42457
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Table of Contents
PART ONE Finding Harmony with Yourself
From the Eight-Point Program: Meditation on a Passage
From the Eight-Point Program: Repetition of the Mantram
The Space Between Thoughts
Living to Be One Hundred and Twenty
Patroling the Mind
Changing Gears
From the Eight-Point Program: Slowing Down
Parking the Mind in Kindness
Fine-Tuning the Mind
Transforming Greed
Patience
Keep Chewing!
Proud Humility
Be a Work of Art
PART TWO Finding Harmony with Others
Living at Life’s Center
Storm Windows
From the Eight-Point Program: Putting Others First
Changing Channels in the Mind
Listening
It Takes Two
“I Love Me”
Expand Your Capacity to Love
Family Yoga
From the Eight-Point Program: Spiritual Companionship
Vaccine for Depression
Dharmaputra and His Dog
A Little Gesture
Likes and Dislikes
From the Eight-Point Program: Training the Senses
Juggling
One Thing at a Time
From the Eight-Point Program: One-Pointed Attention
Filling the Inner Needs
Eating in Peace
Whosoever Saves Time Shall Lose It
Finding Time
Tender and Tough