The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
JACK KORNFIELDThe things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.
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It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.
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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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The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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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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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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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.
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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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We can always begin again.
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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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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To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.
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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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