Allan Lokos Quotes: 21

• Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts.

  Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living

• Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are.

  Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living

• Do not speak about anyone who is not physically present.

  Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living

• When we are aware of our weaknesses or negative tendencies, we open the opportunity to work on them.

  Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living

• True patience is grounded in wisdom & compassion.

  Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living

• One doesn't have to be religious to lead a moral life or attain wisdom.

  Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living

• Patience is the direct antithesis of anger.

  Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living

• That's why it's called a practice. We have to practice a practice if it is to be of value.

  Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living

• The practice of lovingkindness can uplift us & relieve sorrow & unhappiness.

  Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living

• Honor your relationships by developing listening skills.

  Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living

• Observe & accept what ever arises & know that everything is as it needs to be.

  Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living

• We all have issues & we have usually come by them honestly.

  Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living

• Directing the mind to stay in the present can be a formidable task.

  Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living

• While meditating we are simply seeing what the mind has been doing all along.

  Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living

• Being a senior doesn't automatically make one wise but the wise & foolish alike have things to teach us.

  Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living

• We train the mind so that we can enjoy greater peace, happiness, wisdom & equanimity.

  Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living

• You honor yourself by acting with dignity and composure.

  Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living

• When we teach a child patience we offer them the gift of a dignified life.

  Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living

• Accepting the reality of change gives rise to equanimity.

  Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living

• The erruption of feelings & emotions that follows a near-death exerience, or any event that causes us to stop & look deeply at the reality of our lives, is ripe with the potential for insight & clarity.

  Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living

• Observing your thoughts, feelings & sensations is the grist of the practice.

  Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living