The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
JACK KORNFIELDTo see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
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You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.
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Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.
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What we seek is what we are.
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It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
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Spiritual life doesn’t make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.
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Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.
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Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.
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As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, ‘This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,’ then you can go beyond.
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We each need to make our lion’s roar – to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears – to declare our right to awaken.
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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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