Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
JACK KORNFIELDThe 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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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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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice.
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Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
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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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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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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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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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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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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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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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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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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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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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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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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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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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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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…Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.
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May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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