The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
JACK KORNFIELDSince 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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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.
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Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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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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As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of untruths, of old images of ourselves, of ancient fears, of false ideas of what is pure and what is not.
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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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When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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