Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
JACK KORNFIELDIn deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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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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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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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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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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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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Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.
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…Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
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