Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
JACK KORNFIELDYou hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.
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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.
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The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you’re knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?
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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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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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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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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
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Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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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 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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The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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