Allan Lokos Quotes:

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

Topics: Believe, Thinking, Mindfulness, Meditation Mindfulness, Mindful Living

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

source: - Allan Lokos (2012). “Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living”, p.48, Penguin

Topics: Inspiration, Practice, Meditation, Meditating

It is a powerful practice to be generous when you are the one feeling in need.

Topics: Powerful, Practice, Generosity

We have no idea what tomorrow will bring, but today is overflowing with potential.

source: - Allan Lokos (2015). “Through the Flames: Overcoming Disaster Through Compassion, Patience, and Determination”, p.151, Penguin

Topics: Ideas, Vision, Today

You cannot control the results, only your actions.

Topics: Karma, Action, Results

Patience has all the time it needs.

source: - Allan Lokos (2012). “Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living”, p.116, Penguin

Topics: Buddhist, Needs

No one looks or feels attractive when angry.

source: - Allan Lokos (2012). “Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living”, p.143, Penguin

Topics: Meditation, Looks, Attractive

To forgive does not mean to forget.

Topics: Mean, Meditation, Forgiving, Forget Me

We need never be bound by the limitations of our previous or current thinking, nor are we ever locked into being the person we used to be, or think we are.

source: - Allan Lokos (2010). “Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living”, p.32, Penguin

Topics: Thinking, Meditation, Needs

Support the type of thinking that leads you to feeling good, peaceful & happy.

source: - Allan Lokos (2010). “Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living”, p.55, Penguin

Topics: Buddhist, Thinking, Support

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

source: - Allan Lokos (2012). “Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living”, p.79, Penguin

Topics: Yoga, Practice, Meditation, Yoga Practice

Patience is the direct antithesis of anger.

source: - Allan Lokos (2010). “Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living”, p.63, Penguin

Topics: Patience, Anger, Antithesis

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

Topics: Uplifting, Practice, Meditation, Lovingkindness

Patience is supported & nurtured by a quality of forgiveness.

Topics: Patience, Quality

The more we genuinely care about others the greater our own happiness & inner peace.

source: - Allan Lokos (2010). “Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living”, p.90, Penguin

Topics: Peace, Meditation, Care

One who is patient glows with an inner radiance.

source: - Allan Lokos (2012). “Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living”, p.143, Penguin

Topics: Patience, Radiance, Patient

Do not speak about anyone who is not physically present.

Topics: Meditation, Speak

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

source: - Allan Lokos (2010). “Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living”, p.48, Penguin

Topics: Yoga, Health, Suffering

Patience lives in the gap between our experience of an event and our response to that experience.

source: - Allan Lokos (2012). “Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living”, p.33, Penguin

Topics: Events, Gaps, Patient

We all have issues and we have usually come by them honestly.

Topics: Issues, Meditation, Honestly

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

Topics: Practice, Meditation, Feelings

True patience is grounded in wisdom and compassion.

source: - Allan Lokos (2012). “Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living”, p.109, Penguin

Topics: Compassion, Virtue, Grounded

Accepting the reality of change gives rise to equanimity.

source: - Allan Lokos (2010). “Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living”, p.100, Penguin

Topics: Inspiration, Reality, Practice, Equanimity

There is no illness that is not exacerbated by stress.

Topics: Stress, Illness

Any methodology for developing patience requires a multi-tiered approach.

Topics: Patience, Methodology, Approach

We yearn for there to be meaning to our lives, balanced with a sense of inner peace & joy.

Topics: Meditation, Joy, Inner Peace

Patience is both the tool for and the result of, our efforts.

source: - Allan Lokos (2012). “Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living”, p.18, Penguin

Topics: Effort, Meditation, Tools

Praise & esteem can feel good, which is fine, but don't look to them for inner peace & lasting happiness.

Topics: Lasting Happiness, Meditation, Feel Good

So what is a good meditator? The one who meditates.

Topics: Inspiration, Meditation Practice, Meditating

Thoughts, words, emotions & deeds not coming from love are likely coming from fear.

Topics: Fear, Deeds, Emotion

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

Topics: Senior, Wise, Peace

We must accept the reality that the causes of impatience travel a two-way street.

Topics: Patience, Reality, Two, Two Way Street

To advance spiritually requires a method of practice & determination to carry it out.

Topics: Determination, Practice, Meditation