To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
JACK KORNFIELDDo 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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As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of untruths, of old images of ourselves, of ancient fears, of false ideas of what is pure and what is not.
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Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the 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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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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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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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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Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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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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Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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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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Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
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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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Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.
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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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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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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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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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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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We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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