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 KORNFIELDMost people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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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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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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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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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Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well…In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
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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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The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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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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Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
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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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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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