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.
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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Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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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.
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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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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.
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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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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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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.
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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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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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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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The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation we must follow what brings us alive.
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The 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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Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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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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