Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
JACK KORNFIELDTo live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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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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Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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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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…Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
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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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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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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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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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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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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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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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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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