At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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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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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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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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The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.
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We can always begin again.
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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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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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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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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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To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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