Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
JACK KORNFIELDHave respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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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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We can always begin again.
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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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Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.
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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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Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.
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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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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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Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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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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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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