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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.

Jack Kornfield

Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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Buddhist First Therapists
Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
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Beginning End Peace Yourself
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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Avoid Beginning Change End Freedom Happiness Life Move Peace
To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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Attention Aware Life Ourselves See
A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
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Acceptance Fundamental Kindness Maturity Quality Spiritual
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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Fantastic Intimate Live Moments Oneself Togetherness Touch
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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Battle End Heart Let Go Open Practice Present Spiritual
At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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End Life Love Myself Question Simplicity
Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
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Belief Limit Stuck
Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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Care Let Go Way Wisdom
Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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Individual Unique World
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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Avoid Difficult Genuine Heart Mistake Power Spiritual Transformation Wake
May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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Beautiful Nature Self Love True Yourself
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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Happiness Life Live Myself Simplicity Student
We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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Heart Improvement Let Go Ourselves
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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Basic Beautiful Born Doubt Goodness Love Yourself

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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