Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
JACK KORNFIELDWe 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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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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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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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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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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The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.
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Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.
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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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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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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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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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Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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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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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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