Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.
JACK KORNFIELDYou need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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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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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
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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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If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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What we seek is what we are.
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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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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Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.
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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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The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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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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We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
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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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We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.
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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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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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To 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 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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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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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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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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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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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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