Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
JACK KORNFIELDEvery 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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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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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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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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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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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Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.
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To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.
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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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Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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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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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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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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Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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