Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.
JACK KORNFIELDWe do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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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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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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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
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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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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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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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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.
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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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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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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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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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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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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.
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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 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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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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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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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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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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