It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
JACK KORNFIELDEach moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
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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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As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of untruths, of old images of ourselves, of ancient fears, of false ideas of what is pure and what is not.
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Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.
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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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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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Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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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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…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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We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.
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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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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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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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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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