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.
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 heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.
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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.
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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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To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
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Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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