Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.
JACK KORNFIELDIndifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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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 it means to allow our hearts to open.
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Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.
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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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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.
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Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
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If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.
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Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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