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.
JACK KORNFIELDEverything 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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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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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 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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Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.
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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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What we seek is what we are.
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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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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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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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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A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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