Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
JACK KORNFIELDThe waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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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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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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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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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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, 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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As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, ‘This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,’ then you can go beyond.
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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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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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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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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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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We can always begin again.
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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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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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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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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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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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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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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A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
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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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The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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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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