Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
JACK KORNFIELDAttention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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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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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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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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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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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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Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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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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