Do 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.
JACK KORNFIELDLife without forgiveness is unbearable.
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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, “I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
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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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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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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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We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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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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The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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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 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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The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.
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The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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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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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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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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