If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
JACK KORNFIELDOurs is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.
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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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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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To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
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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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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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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 only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.
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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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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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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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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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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
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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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