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.
JACK KORNFIELDLife is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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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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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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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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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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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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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A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
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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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The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.
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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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To 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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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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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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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go.
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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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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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What we seek is what we are.
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Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
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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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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
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