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.
JACK KORNFIELDWe must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.
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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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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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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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Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
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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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Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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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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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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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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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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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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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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When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.
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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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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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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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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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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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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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You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.
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