Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
JACK KORNFIELDEverything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
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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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Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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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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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Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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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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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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If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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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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