Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children, lovers, family, or friends. We can assist them, pray for them, and wish them well, yet in the end their happiness and suffering depend on their thoughts and actions, not on our wishes.
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.Jack Kornfield
When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding. We must have the courage to face whatever is present our pain, our desires, our grief, our loss, our secret hopes our love everything that moves us most deeply.
Jack Kornfield
If grief or anger arises, Let there be grief or anger. This is the Buddha in all forms, Sun Buddha, Moon Buddha, Happy Buddha, Sad Buddha. It is the universe offering all thingsto awaken and open our heart.
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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
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When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another - and ourselves
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