Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
JACK KORNFIELDTo begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
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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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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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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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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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In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go.
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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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Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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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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Spiritual life doesn’t make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.
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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of untruths, of old images of ourselves, of ancient fears, of false ideas of what is pure and what is not.
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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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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.
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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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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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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.
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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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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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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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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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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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