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.
JACK KORNFIELDAttention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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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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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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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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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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Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
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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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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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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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What we seek is what we are.
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We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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