We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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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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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Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
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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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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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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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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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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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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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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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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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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