The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
JACK KORNFIELDSpiritual 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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You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
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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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To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.
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Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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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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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it’s not like you’re going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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We can always begin again.
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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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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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Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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