Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
JACK KORNFIELDTo live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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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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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, ‘This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,’ then you can go beyond.
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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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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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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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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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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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May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.
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The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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