Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
JACK KORNFIELDTrue love is not for the faint-hearted.
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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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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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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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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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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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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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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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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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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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Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
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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.
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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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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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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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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.
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We can always begin again.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
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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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You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.
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