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.
JACK KORNFIELDTo see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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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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Spiritual life doesn’t make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.
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…Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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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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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
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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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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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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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When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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We can always begin again.
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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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Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.
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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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