Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
JACK KORNFIELDDo not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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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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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.
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To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
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We can always begin again.
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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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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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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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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.
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The grief we carry is part of the grief of the world. Hold it gently. Let it be honored. You do not have to keep it in anymore. You can let go into the heart of compassion; you can weep.
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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.
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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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