Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
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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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, “I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
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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 basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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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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Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
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To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
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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 person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you’re knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?
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Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.
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No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.
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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of untruths, of old images of ourselves, of ancient fears, of false ideas of what is pure and what is not.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
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The grief we carry is part of the grief of the world. Hold it gently. Let it be honored. You do not have to keep it in anymore. You can let go into the heart of compassion; you can weep.
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In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go.
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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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We can always begin again.
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Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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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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