Part 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.
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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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can’t close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you 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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May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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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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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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To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
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