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 KORNFIELDLetting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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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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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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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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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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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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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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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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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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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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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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