Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
JACK KORNFIELDEverything 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.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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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The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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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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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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The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
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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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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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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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…Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
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Ours 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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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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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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Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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