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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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  Letting Go, Spiritual, Heart

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• It is the basic principle of spiritual life that we learn the deepest things in unknown territory. Often it is when we feel most confused inwardly and are in the midst of our greatest difficulties that something new will open. We awaken most easily to the mystery of life through our weakest side. The areas of our greatest strength, where we are the most competent and clearest, tend to keep us away from the mystery.

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  Spiritual, Confused, Principles

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• Everybody needs to take some time, in some way, to quiet themselves and really listen to their heart.

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  Heart, Needs, Way

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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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  Connections, World, Busy

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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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  Gratitude, Cracks, Grass

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.33, Shambhala Publications

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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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  Spiritual, Art, Mistake

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• When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding. We must have the courage to face whatever is present - our pain, our desires, our grief, our loss, our secret hopes our love - everything that moves us most deeply.

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  Pain, Grief, Moving

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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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  Compassion, Practice, Perfect

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• When we let go of our battles and open our heart to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice. Only in this moment can we discover that which is timeless. Only here can we find the love that we seek. Love in the past is simply memory, and love in the future is fantasy. Only in the reality of the present can we love, can we awaken, can we find peace and understanding and connection with ourselves and the world.

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  Letting Go, Spiritual, Memories

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• We need courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit. But the place for this warrior strength is in the heart. We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy-mate rial or spiritual. 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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  Running, Spiritual, Pain

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• Compassion is our deepest nature. It arises from our interconnection with all things.

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  Compassion, Arise, Interconnection

  Twitter post from Apr 09, 2016

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• There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.

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  People, Holiness, Holy Places

  Jack Kornfield (1994). “Buddha's Little Instruction Book”, Bantam

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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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  Serenity, World, Grasping

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• Nirvana manifests as ease, as love, as connectedness, as generosity, as clarity, as unshakable freedom. This isn’t watering down nirvana. This is the reality of liberation that we can experience, sometimes in a moment and sometimes in transformative ways that change our entire life

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  Reality, Generosity, Ease

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• The Sufis have a saying: "Praise Allah, and tie your camel to a post." This brings together both parts of practice: pray, yes, but also make sure that you do what is necessary in the world.

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  Prayer, Practice, Ties

  "Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation". Book by Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein, 1987.

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• It is possible to speak with our heart directly. Most ancient cultures know this. We can actually converse with our heart as if it were a good friend. In modern life we have become so busy with our daily affairs and thoughts that we have lost this essential art of taking time to converse with our heart.

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  Art, Good Friend, Essentials

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.12, Random House

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• We can bring a heart of understanding and compassion to a world that needs it so much.

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  Heart, Compassion, Understanding

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.101, Shambhala Publications

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• When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.

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  Inspirational, Healing, Eye

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.252, Random House

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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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  Beach, Hatred, Suffering

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• ...Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.

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  Spiritual, Kindness, Heart

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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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  Life, Letting Go, Passing Moments

  Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield (2001). “Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation”, p.177, Shambhala Publications

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• Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.

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  Forgiveness, Heart, Resentment

  Twitter post from Oct 13, 2015

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• Compassion arises naturally as the quivering of the heart in the face of pain, ours and another's. True compassion is not limited by the separateness of pity, nor by the fear of being overwhelmed. When we come to rest in the great heart of compassion, we discover a capacity to bear witness to, suffer with, and hold dear with our own vulnerable heart the sorrows and beauties of the world.

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  Pain, Heart, Compassion

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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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  Pain, Heart, Ignorance

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Meditation for Beginners: Six Guided Meditations for Insight, Inner Clarity, and Cultivating a Compassionate Heart”, p.31, Sounds True

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• This life is a test-it is only a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received further instructions on where to go and what to do. Remember, this life is only a test.

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  Tests, Remember, Life Is

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