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.
JACK KORNFIELDMost of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.
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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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When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
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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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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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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 do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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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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The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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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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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you’re knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?
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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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