The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
JACK KORNFIELDEvery individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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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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Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.
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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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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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The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you’re knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?
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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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We can always begin again.
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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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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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When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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