Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
JACK KORNFIELD
A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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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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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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Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, “I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
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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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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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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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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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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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We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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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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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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