Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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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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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Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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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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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 basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, ‘This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,’ then you can go beyond.
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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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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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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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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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The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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What we seek is what we are.
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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