Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
JACK KORNFIELDTo 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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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
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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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We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.
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The grief we carry is part of the grief of the world. Hold it gently. Let it be honored. You do not have to keep it in anymore. You can let go into the heart of compassion; you can weep.
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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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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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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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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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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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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 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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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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