To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
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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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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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.
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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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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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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
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As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, ‘This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,’ then you can go beyond.
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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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We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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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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