To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
JACK KORNFIELDAs we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of untruths, of old images of ourselves, of ancient fears, of false ideas of what is pure and what is not.
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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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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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We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
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Ours 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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The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.
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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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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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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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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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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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