Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
JACK KORNFIELDAttention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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…Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
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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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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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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation we must follow what brings us alive.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.
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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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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
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Spiritual life doesn’t make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.
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