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.
JACK KORNFIELDEvery facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.
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The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.
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The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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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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Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
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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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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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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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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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What we seek is what we are.
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Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well…In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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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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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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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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We can always begin again.
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When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice.
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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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We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.
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