To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
JACK KORNFIELDYou 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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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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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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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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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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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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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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Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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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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Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.
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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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