Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
JACK KORNFIELDBuddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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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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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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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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Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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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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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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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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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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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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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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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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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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