The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
JACK KORNFIELDOurs is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.
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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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A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
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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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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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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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You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.
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The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.
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It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can’t close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.
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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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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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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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Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
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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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