Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
JACK KORNFIELDEven Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, “I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
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What we seek is what we are.
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Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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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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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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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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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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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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 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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Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, “I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
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Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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