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spiritual acceptance self
Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
kindness acceptance compassion
A second quality of mature sirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance....
spiritual art mistake
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.
forgiveness mean forgiving
Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not mean we will allow injustice again.
practice independence quality
The independence and rebelliousness of our adolescence offer us yet another quality essential to our practice; the insistence that we find out the truth for ourselves, accepting no one's word above our own experience.
world
Tending to ourselves, we tend the world. Tending the world, we tend ourselves.
running spiritual pain
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.
buddhism doubt suffering
We each need to make our lion's roar - to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears - to declare our right to awaken.
home journey journey-home
As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home.
wise new-experiences going-away
As we encounter new experiences with a mindful and wise attention, we discover that one of three things will happen to our new experience: it will go away, it will stay the same, or it will get more intense. whatever happens does not really matter.
spiritual journey reason
We don't know all the reasons that propel us on a spiritual journey, but somehow our life compels us to go.
kindness looks interest
To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
letting-go hate mean
To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.
spiritual kindness heart
...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.