Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.
JACK KORNFIELDTo undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.
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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
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Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well…In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.
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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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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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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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The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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You 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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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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