Original Goodness Quotes

“I still remember a dying seal looking at me in mute appeal as if to say, “You people are supposed to protect us. You are the trustees of our world. Why aren’t you doing your job?”
― Eknath Easwaran, Original Goodness: A Commentary on the Beatitudes

“Fragments from the Big Bang lie all around us, just as in distant stars. In the same way, the mystics say, a trace of our original divinity is present in every creature. In some, like Saint Francis of Assisi, it is highly revealed; in others it is more heavily veiled; but that divinity is present throughout creation.”
― Eknath Easwaran, Original Goodness: A Commentary on the Beatitudes

“Patience means self-mastery: the capacity to hold on and remain loving in a difficult situation when every atom of your being wants to turn and run. ✳ Perversely, the more we try to run from occasions that might cause us grief, the more we add to our burden of it.”
― Eknath Easwaran, Original Goodness: A Commentary on the Beatitudes