The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.
JACK KORNFIELDTo live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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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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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, “I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
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Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.
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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 heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
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Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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The grief we carry is part of the grief of the world. Hold it gently. Let it be honored. You do not have to keep it in anymore. You can let go into the heart of compassion; you can weep.
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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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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 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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