When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
JACK KORNFIELDLive in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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It 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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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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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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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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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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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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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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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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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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We can always begin again.
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