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.
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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It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can’t close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.
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The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
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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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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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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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May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice.
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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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Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
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You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.
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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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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
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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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The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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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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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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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 each need to make our lion’s roar – to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears – to declare our right to awaken.
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It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
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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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To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
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Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well…In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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