The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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 deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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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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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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We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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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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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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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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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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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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The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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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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May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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