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.
JACK KORNFIELDThe quieting of our mind is a political act.
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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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May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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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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To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
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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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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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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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To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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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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…Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
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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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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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The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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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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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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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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Within 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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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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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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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
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We can always begin again.
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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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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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