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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.
-Jack Kornfield
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To Live Life Is To Make A

Jack Kornfield
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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The saved sinner is prostrate in adoration, lost in wonder and praise. he knows repentance is not what we do in order to earn forgiveness; it is what we do because we have been forgiven. it serves as an expression of gratitude rather than an effort to earn forgiveness. thus the sequence of forgiveness and then repentance, rather than repentance and then forgiveness, is crucial for understanding the gospel of grace.
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As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors of the past and their expositions, which like the former were very lively and made a great commotion in their own age but now stand petrified and stiff in a place where only the literary palaeontologist regards them.
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Finding a way to extend forgiveness to ourselves is one of our most essential tasks. just as others have been caught in suffering, so have we. if we look honestly at our life, we can see the sorrows and pain that have led to our own wrongdoing. in this we can finally extend forgiveness to ourselves; we can hold the pain we have caused in compassion. without such mercy, we will live our own life in exile.
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