Top 33 Quotes & Sayings by Allan Lokos

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American author Allan Lokos.
Last updated on September 19, 2024.
Allan Lokos

Allan Lokos is the founder and guiding teacher of the Community Meditation Center located on New York City's upper west side. He is the author of Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living , Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living, and Through the Flames: Overcoming Disaster Through Compassion, Patience, and Determination. His writing has appeared in The Huffington Post, Tricycle magazine, Beliefnet, and several anthologies.

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.
Support the type of thinking that leads you to feeling good, peaceful & happy.
Praise & esteem can feel good, which is fine, but don't look to them for inner peace & lasting happiness. — © Allan Lokos
Praise & esteem can feel good, which is fine, but don't look to them for inner peace & lasting happiness.
Do not speak about anyone who is not physically present.
True patience is grounded in wisdom and compassion.
Patience is the direct antithesis of anger.
While meditating we are simply seeing what the mind has been doing all along.
We have no idea what tomorrow will bring, but today is overflowing with potential.
Observing your thoughts, feelings & sensations is the grist of the practice.
Any methodology for developing patience requires a multi-tiered approach.
We all have issues and we have usually come by them honestly.
Thoughts, words, emotions & deeds not coming from love are likely coming from fear.
That's why it's called a practice. We have to practice a practice if it is to be of value.
Being a senior doesn't automatically make one wise but the wise & foolish alike have things to teach us.
You cannot control the results, only your actions.
We yearn for there to be meaning to our lives, balanced with a sense of inner peace & joy.
The practice of lovingkindness can uplift us & relieve sorrow & unhappiness.
The more we genuinely care about others the greater our own happiness & inner peace.
No one looks or feels attractive when angry.
To forgive does not mean to forget.
Patience is supported & nurtured by a quality of forgiveness.
It is a powerful practice to be generous when you are the one feeling in need.
Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts.
Patience lives in the gap between our experience of an event and our response to that experience.
Patience has all the time it needs. — © Allan Lokos
Patience has all the time it needs.
Accepting the reality of change gives rise to equanimity.
To advance spiritually requires a method of practice & determination to carry it out.
So what is a good meditator? The one who meditates.
Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are.
Patience is both the tool for and the result of, our efforts.
One who is patient glows with an inner radiance.
There is no illness that is not exacerbated by stress.
We must accept the reality that the causes of impatience travel a two-way street.
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