Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
JACK KORNFIELDEverything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.
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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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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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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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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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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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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.
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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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Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.
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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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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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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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