To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
JACK KORNFIELDEquanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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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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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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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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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Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.
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As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of untruths, of old images of ourselves, of ancient fears, of false ideas of what is pure and what is not.
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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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You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice.
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We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.
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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, 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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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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