Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
JACK KORNFIELDIn 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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Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, “I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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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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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.
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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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Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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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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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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To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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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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Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.
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You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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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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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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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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Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
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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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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.
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