Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
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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To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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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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Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
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Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.
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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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The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
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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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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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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As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, ‘This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,’ then you can go beyond.
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We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.
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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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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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