There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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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Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.
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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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We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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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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Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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We can always begin again.
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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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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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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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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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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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Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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