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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We can always begin again.
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What we seek is what we are.
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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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Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
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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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The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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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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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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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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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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you 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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To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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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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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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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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Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.
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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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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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Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.
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To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
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To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.
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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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