Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
JACK KORNFIELDMost people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.
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To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.
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We each need to make our lion’s roar – to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears – to declare our right to awaken.
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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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You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.
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The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.
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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice.
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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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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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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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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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