Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
JACK KORNFIELDCompassion 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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Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
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May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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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 goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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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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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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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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You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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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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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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