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.
JACK KORNFIELDWithin 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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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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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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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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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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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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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it’s not like you’re going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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We can always begin again.
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When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
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Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.
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We each need to make our lion’s roar – to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears – to declare our right to awaken.
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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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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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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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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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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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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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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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What we seek is what we are.
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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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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.
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