We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
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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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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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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Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
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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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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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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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Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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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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Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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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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We each need to make our lion’s roar – to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears – to declare our right to awaken.
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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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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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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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