Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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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To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
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Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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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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When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice.
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Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.
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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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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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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The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.
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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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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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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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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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