Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.
JACK KORNFIELDEvery individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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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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It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.
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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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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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Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
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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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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.
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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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It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
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Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
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When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.
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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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What we seek is what we are.
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