To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
JACK KORNFIELDEach moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
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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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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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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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It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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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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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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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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Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
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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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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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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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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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