Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
JACK KORNFIELDLive in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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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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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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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of untruths, of old images of ourselves, of ancient fears, of false ideas of what is pure and what is not.
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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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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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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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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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Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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