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.
JACK KORNFIELDPart of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it’s not like you’re going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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What we seek is what we are.
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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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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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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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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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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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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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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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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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