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.
JACK KORNFIELDThe willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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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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Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
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Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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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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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.
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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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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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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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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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