Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.
JACK KORNFIELDIt is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can’t close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.
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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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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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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, ‘This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,’ then you can go beyond.
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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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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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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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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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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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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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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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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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Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
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