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 KORNFIELDPeace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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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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Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
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The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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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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Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
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When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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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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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
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If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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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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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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