Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
JACK KORNFIELDOurs 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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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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No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.
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In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go.
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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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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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We can always begin again.
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Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.
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As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of untruths, of old images of ourselves, of ancient fears, of false ideas of what is pure and what is not.
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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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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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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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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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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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Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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