Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
JACK KORNFIELDNo matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.
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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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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
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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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You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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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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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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It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
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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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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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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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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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