If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
JACK KORNFIELDThe grief we carry is part of the grief of the world. Hold it gently. Let it be honored. You do not have to keep it in anymore. You can let go into the heart of compassion; you can weep.
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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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It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can’t close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.
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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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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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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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May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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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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The grief we carry is part of the grief of the world. Hold it gently. Let it be honored. You do not have to keep it in anymore. You can let go into the heart of compassion; you can weep.
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To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
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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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