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.
JACK KORNFIELDAs 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 way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.
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Part 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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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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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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The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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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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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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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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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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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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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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