Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.
JACK KORNFIELDThe willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.
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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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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of untruths, of old images of ourselves, of ancient fears, of false ideas of what is pure and what is not.
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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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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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It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
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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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What we seek is what we are.
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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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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
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