Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
JACK KORNFIELDWithin each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
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A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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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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We can always begin again.
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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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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 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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Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
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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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Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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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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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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Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
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