Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
JACK KORNFIELDIt is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can’t close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open 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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You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.
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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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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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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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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Spiritual life doesn’t make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.
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To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
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What we seek is what we are.
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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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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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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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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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