Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.
JACK KORNFIELDWe do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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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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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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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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Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well…In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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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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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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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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The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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We can always begin again.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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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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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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