To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
JACK KORNFIELDEverything 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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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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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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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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Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, “I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
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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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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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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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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 people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go.
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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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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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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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