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.
JACK KORNFIELDWhen we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice.
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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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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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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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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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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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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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What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation we must follow what brings us alive.
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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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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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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We 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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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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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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