Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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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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The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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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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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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Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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We can always begin again.
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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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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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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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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things 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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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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