The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
JACK KORNFIELDBuddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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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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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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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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Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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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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The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.
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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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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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Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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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 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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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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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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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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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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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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Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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