A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
JACK KORNFIELDThe awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go.
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The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
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What we seek is what we are.
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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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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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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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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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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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When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice.
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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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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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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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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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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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