The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.
JACK KORNFIELDThe 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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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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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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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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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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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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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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When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.
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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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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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To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
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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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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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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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To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
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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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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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…Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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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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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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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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