Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
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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Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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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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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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May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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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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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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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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