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.
JACK KORNFIELDSince 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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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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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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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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We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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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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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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A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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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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We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.
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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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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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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We can always begin again.
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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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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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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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You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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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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The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
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Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
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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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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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