The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
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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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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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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What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation we must follow what brings us alive.
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We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go.
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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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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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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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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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May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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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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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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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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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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