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The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
-Jack Kornfield
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The Basic Principle Of Spiritual Life Is

Jack Kornfield
The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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It is in the whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has meaning. problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and our wisdom. it is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually. it is through the pain of confronting and resolving problems that we learn.
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The negative principle negates. the positive principle creates. the negative principle doubts. the positive principle believes. the negative principle accepts defeat. the positive principle goes for victory.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than basic for that purpose. that language was joss, which predated basic and was beautiful. but basic happened to be on a ge timesharing system that was done by dartmouth, and when ge decided to franchise that, it started spreading basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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It is not unreasonable to assume that the works of god, their existence and preceding non-existence, are the result of his wisdom, but we are unable to understand many of the ways of his wisdom in his works. on this principle the whole law of moses is based; it begins with this principle: "and god saw all that he had made, and behold, it was very good" (gen. i. 31); and it ends with this principle: "the rock, perfect is his work" (deut. xxxii. 4). note it.
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