Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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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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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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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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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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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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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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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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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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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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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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