All of spiritual practice is a matter of relationship: to ourselves, to others, to life's situations.
Jack KornfieldLove is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
Jack KornfieldCompassion arises naturally as the quivering of the heart in the face of pain, ours and another's. True compassion is not limited by the separateness of pity, nor by the fear of being overwhelmed. When we come to rest in the great heart of compassion, we discover a capacity to bear witness to, suffer with, and hold dear with our own vulnerable heart the sorrows and beauties of the world.
Jack KornfieldCompassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.
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