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.
JACK KORNFIELDNo matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
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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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We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.
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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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A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
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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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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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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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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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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 quieting of our mind is a political act.
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