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 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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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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To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
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The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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Spiritual life doesn’t make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.
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Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.
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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.
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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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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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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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