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.
JACK KORNFIELDAt the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Since 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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What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation we must follow what brings us alive.
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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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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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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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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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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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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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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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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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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 have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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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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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.
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It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can’t close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.
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To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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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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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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