Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
JACK KORNFIELDThe waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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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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We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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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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When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.
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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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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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To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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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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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, “I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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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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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
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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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Do 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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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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No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.
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The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you’re knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?
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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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Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.
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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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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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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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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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