Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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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It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can’t close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.
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When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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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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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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The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
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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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Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.
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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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The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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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 quieting of our mind is a political act.
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To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.
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