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.
JACK KORNFIELDThe things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.
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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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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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Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
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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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To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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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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Spiritual 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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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.
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Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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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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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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