If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.
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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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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Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
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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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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go.
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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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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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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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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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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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Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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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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Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
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