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.
JACK KORNFIELDCompassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.
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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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Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, ‘This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,’ then you can go beyond.
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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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We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
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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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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
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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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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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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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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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