Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.
JACK KORNFIELDOurs is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.
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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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Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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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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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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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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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.
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What we seek is what we are.
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The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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We can always begin again.
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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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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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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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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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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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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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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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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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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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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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You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.
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We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
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When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
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Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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