To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
JACK KORNFIELDThe awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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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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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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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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We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.
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What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation we must follow what brings us alive.
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What we seek is what we are.
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No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.
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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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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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Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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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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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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