The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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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Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
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Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.
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When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.
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The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.
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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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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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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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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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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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