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.
JACK KORNFIELDLife is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
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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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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 awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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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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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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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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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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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
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