No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
JACK KORNFIELDSince 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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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
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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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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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To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.
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The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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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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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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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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The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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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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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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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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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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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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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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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, ‘This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,’ then you can go beyond.
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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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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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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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…Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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