Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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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Equanimity 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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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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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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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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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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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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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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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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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.
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To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
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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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