The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
JACK KORNFIELDThe basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, “I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
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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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Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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Spiritual life doesn’t make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.
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We each need to make our lion’s roar – to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears – to declare our right to awaken.
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Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
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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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It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
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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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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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Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.
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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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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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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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The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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