Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
JACK KORNFIELDAs 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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We can always begin again.
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Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
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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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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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We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
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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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What we seek is what we are.
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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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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 awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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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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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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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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