To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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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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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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In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go.
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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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We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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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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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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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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Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.
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…Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
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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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