Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
JACK KORNFIELDLet 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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Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.
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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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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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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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We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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We each need to make our lion’s roar – to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears – to declare our right to awaken.
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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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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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A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
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To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.
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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 heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
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