Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well…In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
JACK KORNFIELDBuddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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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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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.
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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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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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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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Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it’s not like you’re going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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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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