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.
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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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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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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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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Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
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Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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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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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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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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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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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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To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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