In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
JACK KORNFIELDLive in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, ‘This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,’ then you can go beyond.
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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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We can always begin again.
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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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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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We each need to make our lion’s roar – to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears – to declare our right to awaken.
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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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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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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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