Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
JACK KORNFIELDWherever 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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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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What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation we must follow what brings us alive.
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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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Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.
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To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.
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The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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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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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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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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We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
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We can always begin again.
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