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.
JACK KORNFIELDAnger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
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The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.
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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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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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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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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.
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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.
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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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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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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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It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
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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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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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