Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.
JACK KORNFIELDTo live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
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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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What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation we must follow what brings us alive.
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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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When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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We can always begin again.
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Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.
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A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
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The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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