It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
JACK KORNFIELDWe do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.
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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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As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, ‘This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,’ then you can go beyond.
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We can always begin again.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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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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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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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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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The grief we carry is part of the grief of the world. Hold it gently. Let it be honored. You do not have to keep it in anymore. You can let go into the heart of compassion; you can weep.
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May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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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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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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We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
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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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To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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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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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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