Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
JACK KORNFIELDLive in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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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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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 of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.
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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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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it’s not like you’re going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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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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We each need to make our lion’s roar – to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears – to declare our right to awaken.
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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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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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To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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