Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
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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Ours 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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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, “I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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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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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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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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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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It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.
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What we seek is what we are.
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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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