Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
JACK KORNFIELDAttention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it’s not like you’re going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, “I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
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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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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.
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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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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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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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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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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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Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.
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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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