Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
JACK KORNFIELDWhen 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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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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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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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.
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What we seek is what we are.
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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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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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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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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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Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
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The grief we carry is part of the grief of the world. Hold it gently. Let it be honored. You do not have to keep it in anymore. You can let go into the heart of compassion; you can weep.
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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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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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