To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
JACK KORNFIELDMay I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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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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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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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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What we seek is what we are.
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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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Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
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Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.
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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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A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.
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The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.
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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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