To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.
JACK KORNFIELDHave respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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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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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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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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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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A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
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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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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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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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Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
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Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
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Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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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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