The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
JACK KORNFIELDEven 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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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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The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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We each need to make our lion’s roar – to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears – to declare our right to awaken.
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What we seek is what we are.
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Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well…In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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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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You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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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Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
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Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
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Compassion 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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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
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To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.
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To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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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.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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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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Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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