Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.
JACK KORNFIELDTrue love is not for the faint-hearted.
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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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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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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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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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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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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Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well…In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
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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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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it’s not like you’re going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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