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.
JACK KORNFIELDMuch of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation we must follow what brings us alive.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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 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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Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
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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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Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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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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The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you’re knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?
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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.
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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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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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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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You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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