We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
JACK KORNFIELDThe waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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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The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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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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The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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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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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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To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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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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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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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.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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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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