The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
JACK KORNFIELDTo 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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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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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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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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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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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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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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No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.
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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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In 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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Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
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The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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