True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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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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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Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
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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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Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
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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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Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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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 can always begin again.
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Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, ‘This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,’ then you can go beyond.
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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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The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you’re knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?
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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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