Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
JACK KORNFIELDPart of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it’s not like you’re going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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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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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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Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
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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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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.
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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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…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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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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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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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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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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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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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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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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