Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
JACK KORNFIELDThe things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
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We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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.
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The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
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We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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