You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
JACK KORNFIELDEverything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
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To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.
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The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.
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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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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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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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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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It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can’t close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.
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To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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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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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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What we seek is what we are.
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To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
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Let 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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Spiritual life doesn’t make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.
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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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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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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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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
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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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Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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