To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
JACK KORNFIELDAnger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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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 waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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What we seek is what we are.
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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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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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It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.
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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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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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Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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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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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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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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