Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
JACK KORNFIELDThe basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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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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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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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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Most 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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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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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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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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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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…Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well…In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
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When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.
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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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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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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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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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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.
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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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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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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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To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.
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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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