Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
JACK KORNFIELDThe goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
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If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.
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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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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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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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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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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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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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What we seek is what we are.
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The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.
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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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You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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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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Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.
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You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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