It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
JACK KORNFIELDTo understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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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.
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice.
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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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We each need to make our lion’s roar – to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears – to declare our right to awaken.
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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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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
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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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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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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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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.
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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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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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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.
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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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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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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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It 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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As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of untruths, of old images of ourselves, of ancient fears, of false ideas of what is pure and what is not.
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