Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
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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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
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If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.
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As 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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Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.
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To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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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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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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Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.
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It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.
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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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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 waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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