No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
JACK KORNFIELDIt 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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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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Spiritual life doesn’t make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.
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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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Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.
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Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
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It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can’t close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.
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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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Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
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Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
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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 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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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.
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We each need to make our lion’s roar – to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears – to declare our right to awaken.
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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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