Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
JACK KORNFIELDThe basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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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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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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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
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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 understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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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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The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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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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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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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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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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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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