What we seek is what we are.
JACK KORNFIELDPart of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it’s not like you’re going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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…Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
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The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you’re knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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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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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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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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We 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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As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, ‘This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,’ then you can go beyond.
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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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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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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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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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