At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
JACK KORNFIELDLetting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
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What we seek is what we are.
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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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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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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
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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.
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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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