Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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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Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well…In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
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May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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We can always begin again.
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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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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.
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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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It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
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When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.
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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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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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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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You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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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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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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 live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
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