No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
JACK KORNFIELDEquanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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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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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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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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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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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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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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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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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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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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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
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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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Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.
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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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