Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
JACK KORNFIELDIt does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.
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Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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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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To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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Spiritual life doesn’t make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.
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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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When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.
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Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well…In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
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We can always begin again.
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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.
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