In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
JACK KORNFIELDKnowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.
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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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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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Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
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Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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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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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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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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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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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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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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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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