May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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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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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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
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The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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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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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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Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
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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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Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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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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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.
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If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.
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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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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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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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You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.
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