Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
JACK KORNFIELDWe 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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Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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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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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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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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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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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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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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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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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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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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