The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
JACK KORNFIELDIt 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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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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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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The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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The grief we carry is part of the grief of the world. Hold it gently. Let it be honored. You do not have to keep it in anymore. You can let go into the heart of compassion; you can weep.
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No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.
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Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.
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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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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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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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Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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