Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
JACK KORNFIELDLife without forgiveness is unbearable.
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When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.
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As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, ‘This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,’ then you can go beyond.
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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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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.
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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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The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
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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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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.
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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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