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- We must especially learn the art of directing mindfulness into the closed areas of our life.
- We need to learn how to honor and use a practice for as long as it serves us—which in most cases is a very long…
- To learn to concentrate we must choose a prayer or meditation and follow this path with commitment and steadiness, a willingness to work with our…
- Through practice, gently and gradually we can collect ourselves and learn how to be more fully with what we do.
- The purpose of spiritual life is not to create some special state of mind. A state of mind is always temporary. The purpose is to…
- 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…
- As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine.
- To bow to the fact of our life's sorrows and betrayals is to accept them; and from this deep gesture we discover that all life…
- 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…
- 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…
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