The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
JACK KORNFIELDLove 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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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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What we seek is what we are.
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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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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
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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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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.
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We can always begin again.
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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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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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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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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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