Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
JACK KORNFIELDEach moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
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Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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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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You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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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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Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.
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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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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.
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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 only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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We can always begin again.
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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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