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- It only take a few minutes of meditation to directly realize we are a river of sensations, feelings, thoughts, perceptions. How can we navigate this…
- At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
- In spiritual life there is no room for compromise. Awakening is not negotiable; we cannot bargain to hold on to things that please us while…
- We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?
- Great spiritual traditions are used as a means to ripen us, to bring us face to face with our life, and to help us to…
- We must especially learn the art of directing mindfulness into the closed areas of our life.
- If you want to love, take the time to listen to your heart. In most ancient and wise cultures it is a regular practice for…
- Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
- ...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…
- Only a deep attention to the whole of our life can bring us the capacity to love well and live freely.
- The questions asked at the end of lie are very simple ones: Did I love well? Did I love the people around me, my community,…
- Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
- Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
- 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…
- To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit.
- As we follow a genuine path of practice, our sufferings may seem to increase because we no longer hide from them or from ourselves. When…
- We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy—material or spiritual.
- Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
- 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…
- It is hard to imagine a world without forgiveness. Without forgiveness life would be unbearable. Without forgiveness our lives are chained, forced to carry the…
- In a society that almost demands life at double time, speed and addictions numb us to our own experience. In such a society, it is…
- We don't know all the reasons that propel us on a spiritual journey, but somehow our life compels us to go.
- When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that they are a being just like us, who has faced much suffering in life.
- It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
- To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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