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 KORNFIELDEquanimity arises when we accept the way things 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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Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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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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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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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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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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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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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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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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Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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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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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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We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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