The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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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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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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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…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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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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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it’s not like you’re going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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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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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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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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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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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