Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
JACK KORNFIELDMost people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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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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Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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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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…Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
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You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, “I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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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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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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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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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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Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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