Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
JACK KORNFIELDWhen we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.
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Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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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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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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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.
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Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to 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 willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go.
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