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The dharma is a universal medicine.
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No matter what situation we find ourselves in, we can always set our compass to our highest intentions in the present moment
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If this day in the lifetime of a hundred years is lost, will you ever touch it with your hands again? The
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May I be filled with loving-kindness. May I be well. May I be peaceful and at ease. May I be happy.
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But forgiveness is the act of not putting anyone out of your heart, even those who are acting out of deep ignorance or out of confusion and pain.
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Though outer events may be difficult, the key to our happiness is how our mind responds to them.
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Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment.
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy - material or spiritual.
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And as to me, I know of nothing else but miracles. WALT WHITMAN
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Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels.
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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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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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True love and prayer are learned in the hour when love becomes impossible and the heart has turned to stone.
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All of spiritual practice is a matter of relationship: to ourselves, to others, to life's situations.
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The suffering and happiness in our world, both individual and collective, depend on our consciousness.
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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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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 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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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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To let go in the deepest recesses of the heart, to release all struggle and wanting, leads us to that knowing which is timeless.
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We are rarely lazy - we are simply afraid.
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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation.
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In this there is no judgment and no blame, for we seek not to perfect the world but to perfect our love for what is on this earth.
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Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there.
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Virtue and integrity are necessary for genuine happiness. Guard your integrity with care.
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Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
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George Washington Carver explained, "Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough." Mindfulness is this kind
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Samadhi doesn't just come of itself; it takes practice.
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Those who are Awake live in a state of constant amazement ...
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Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past.
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The trouble is that you think you have time.
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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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We must especially learn the art of directing mindfulness into the closed areas of our 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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Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.
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To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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Acceptance is not passivity. It is a courageous step in the process of transformation.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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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 — Jack Kornfield
To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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As we step out of the way new things are born.
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In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion.
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We need a repeated discipline, a genuine training, in order to let go of our old habits of mind and to find and sustain a new way of seeing.
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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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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today,
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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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As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home.
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner's mind.
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According to Buddhist scriptures, compassion is the "quivering of the pure heart" when we have allowed ourselves to be touched by the pain of life.
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Compassion is our deepest nature. It arises from our interconnection with all things.
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Through practice, gently and gradually we can collect ourselves and learn how to be more fully with what we do.
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We don't know all the reasons that propel us on a spiritual journey, but somehow our life compels us to go.
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Every individual has a unique contribution.
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Our ideas of self are created by identification. The less we cling to ideas of self, the freer and happier we will be.
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What we seek is what we are.
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The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.
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The entire teaching of Buddhism can be summed up in this way: Nothing is worth holding on to.
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My life has been filled with terrible misfortunes - most of which never happened. Mark Twain
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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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For instance, the near enemy of love is attachment. It masquerades as love, it feels like love, but it is essentially different.
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Trying to hold onto "how it was" will only create suffering and disappointment, because life is a river and everything changes.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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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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Free your heart. Travel like the moon among the stars. - BUDDHA
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How well we have learned to let go
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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 are awakened to the profound realization that the true path to liberation is to let go of everything.
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The aim of spiritual life is to awaken a joyful freedom, a benevolent and compassionate heart in spite of everything.
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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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The task is not to perfect yourself, it's to perfect your love.
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Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim - arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object.
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A factor that greatly supports the opening of energy in practice is exercise and care of the physical body.
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The work of your heart, the work of taking time, to listen, to help, is also your gift to the whole of the world
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Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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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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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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The focusing of attention on the breath is perhaps the most universal of the many hundreds of meditation subjects used worldwide.
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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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Gratitude is confidence in life itself. In it, we feel how the same force that pushes grass through cracks in the sidewalk invigorates our own life.
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A second quality of mature sirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance ...
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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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Without being aware of it, you take many things as being your identity: your body, your race, your beliefs, your thoughts.
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There is no higher happiness than peace.
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What would we have to hold in compassion to be at peace right now? What would we have to let go of to be at peace right now?
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The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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