Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
JACK KORNFIELDSpiritual life doesn’t make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.
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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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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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It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can’t close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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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 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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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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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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What we seek is what we are.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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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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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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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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If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.
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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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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 deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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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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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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Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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