Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
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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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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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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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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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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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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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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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation we must follow what brings us alive.
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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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