Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
JACK KORNFIELDHave 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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May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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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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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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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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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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What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation we must follow what brings us alive.
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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 things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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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 person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you’re knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?
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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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We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.
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