Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
JACK KORNFIELDUse whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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The grief we carry is part of the grief of the world. Hold it gently. Let it be honored. You do not have to keep it in anymore. You can let go into the heart of compassion; you can weep.
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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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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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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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The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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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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We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.
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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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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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We can always begin again.
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Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
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