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.
JACK KORNFIELDWe 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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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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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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Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.
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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.
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No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.
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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 understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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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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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 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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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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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.
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Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
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