We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
JACK KORNFIELDDo 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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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
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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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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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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.
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We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.
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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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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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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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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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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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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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It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.
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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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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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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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As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of untruths, of old images of ourselves, of ancient fears, of false ideas of what is pure and what is not.
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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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The grief we carry is part of the grief of the world. Hold it gently. Let it be honored. You do not have to keep it in anymore. You can let go into the heart of compassion; you can weep.
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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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